Example sentences of "expect [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the massed ranks of City supporters behind the United goal could not have expected their great rivals to throw away their lead in such a foolish manner . |
| 2 | The people of Northern Ireland and , indeed , of Britain and the Republic expect their constitutional politicians to put aside their differences in pursuit of a peaceful political solution and to raise no false obstacles to sitting down to discuss matters among themselves . |
| 3 | The lesson our Party draws is important that all of us , individuals and corporations alike , have a responsibility to reflect the values we expect our fellow citizens to exhibit . |
| 4 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 5 | However , Rangers do not expect their stalling tactics to deter Rovers , and they will be unable to refuse a £4m offer unless they are poised to claim honours of their own . |
| 6 | If glass vessels were prestigious drinking vessels , one might expect their cheaper equivalents to appear in the ceramic assemblage ; true skeuomorphs are not present amongst the pottery , although there is a strong similarity between the turned wooden vessels with metal rims from the Sutton Hoo mound I ship burial and the squat jars of Harden 's type VIII ( 1956b ; 1978 ) . |
| 7 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 8 | Given all the millennia we have to play with in the stratigraphical record , we can expect our periodic catastrophes to do all the work we want of them . |
| 9 | Even Nietzsche expected his future Supermen to form a community . |
| 10 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 11 | The party expects its young hopefuls to fight at least one unwinnable seat in a rotting inner city or municipal wilderness before letting them have a crack at a seat in the safe suburbs . |