Example sentences of "expect the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 2 | David was loyal to a fault , and in his naive understanding quietly expected the same kind of loyalty in return . |
| 3 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
| 4 | From the considerations of Chapter 15 , we expect the quantitative formulation of the relative importance of inertia and buoyancy forces to be made in terms of some form of the Froude number ( eqn ( 15.7 ) ) . |
| 5 | Although new firms continue to enter the market , most commentators expect the total number of GEMMs to decline further . |
| 6 | Users rightly expect the same standard of packaging as is found with other resources such as books and audiovisual material . |
| 7 | Furthermore , we would expect any doctor , not just our own , to behave in the ‘ proper ’ manner , in the same way that we expect the same sort of behaviour from all shop assistants , or all priests , or all fathers . |
| 8 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 9 | Expect the unexplainable Top of the chat |
| 10 | They tend to be European , though , or Europeanized Egyptians and expect the social style of a club on the Riviera . |
| 11 | Industry analysts at Crédit Suisse in Tokyo expect the military side of the aircraft business in Japan to stagnate between now and 1995 . |
| 12 | From common sense one would not expect the mere possession of a regular , orderly arrangement of atoms or molecules to be a cause of weakness , and of course it is n't . |
| 13 | Moreover , one should not expect the liberal ideology of today , as revealed in ordinary discourse , to reflect the universalistic aspirations of the Enlightenment . |
| 14 | Thus while both Higgenbotham ( 1983 : 124 ) and Palmer ( 1988 : 189 ) feel that a sentence such as John was seen to leave has the reporting " see that " meaning ( i.e. " Somebody saw that John left " ) , Mittwoch ( 1990 : 121 ) points out that if this were the case one would expect the perfect form of the infinitive to be completely acceptable and complement negation to be considerably better in a passive sentence than in the corresponding active one , which is not the case in ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) : ( 61 ) ? |
| 15 | With no disincentives for patients to request night visits and incentives for general practitioners to visit can we expect the increased level of activity to yield health or welfare benefits or avoid costs elsewhere in the system ? |
| 16 | Prolonged rainfall , on the other hand , provides massive dilution and little visibility , and in these circumstances the field officer will expect the first flush of urban run-off to bring oil , solids , and other matter washed from streets and buildings into his streams . |
| 17 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 18 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |
| 19 | Do n't expect the same kind of organised tourist activities you 'd find in countries like Austria or Switzerland . |
| 20 | Ordinary shareholders can not normally expect the same kind of safe , steady return on their investment as a preference holder might . |
| 21 | ‘ Surely you do n't expect the same kind of generosity from me ? |
| 22 | If Susanna Jennens had encouraged her to read and write at Weston Hall , Leapor could not really expect the same sort of understanding and support from another employer . |
| 23 | In addition to the acoustic-equivalence problem , we would also expect the island-driving aspect of the density algorithm to exacerbate the search problem . |
| 24 | Rather , we would simply expect the relative demotion of conformity ( in terms of both goals and means ) as against deviance , because it offers less . |
| 25 | As you would expect the high level of vitality in children means they respond quickly and they generally wo n't need as many doses of the remedy . |
| 26 | We would expect the slow migration of hot-spot swells across continental interiors to have a significant impact on landscape development through , for instance , the disruption and diversion of drainage systems . |
| 27 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |
| 28 | The experience of other advanced economies would lead us to expect the increasing dominance of larger manufacturing firms who can benefit more from economies of scale as the level of output and capital investment increases . |
| 29 | In this way the Psalms were read through every twenty-four hours and the Gospels once a week , so that , as Bishop Hacket noticed , ‘ there was no intermission day nor night … they kept sentinel at all hours and seasons to expect the second coming of the Lord Jesus ’ . |
| 30 | All those who receive legal services are entitled to expect the same standard of legal service irrespective of their personal circumstances ; |