Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need not here emphasize the point that nobody can expect Polybius to study the dynamics of Roman imperialism . |
| 2 | From last year 's figures , the retailer knows that she can expect sales to drop in late February , but to begin to climb again at the end of April . |
| 3 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 4 | When I say that you can expect evolution to jump from the insect to one of its immediate neighbours , but not to jump from the insect directly to the fox or the scorpion , what I exactly mean is the following . |
| 5 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 6 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |
| 7 | Given that it seems clear that we may expect students who are well qualified in traditional terms to achieve relatively high levels of academic achievement , an important measure of success may be the extent to which institutions are able to take students who are not well qualified traditionally and achieve relatively high success rates with these students . |
| 8 | The correspondence principle states that we should expect wages to be rising more rapidly the larger is X i . |
| 9 | This system will be used in deciding on future allocations of the pool and the DES has already indicated that it would expect NAB to give advice about appropriate courses and rationalization , particularly concerning those which are expensive , those which are so specialist in nature that control of student numbers is required , and those where both university and public sector provision might be unnecessary or where rationalization is desirable for other reasons . |
| 10 | How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft . |