Example sentences of "not expect [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She collects samples , takes measurements and no doubt makes the tea : she is not expected to analyse the data she collects , and certainly not required to think about the questions those data might answer . |
| 2 | The lower house , chosen on November 8 in Jordan 's first general election in 22 years , was not expected to give the government programme an easy passage . |
| 3 | Nato leaders announced in Brussels a zone would be ready in 24 hours , although the UN is not expected to give the go-ahead until next week . |
| 4 | Previously it was not expected to reach the market until 1992 . |
| 5 | Appointments are made through the library officer but the prisoner is not expected to state the nature of the problem in advance . |
| 6 | They 'd think : I know what you want , because girls are not expected to take the initiative . |
| 7 | It is n't the you are not expected , at least , I was not expected to see the Council producing masses of pages for our reading afterwards and this report , by the way , is worth reading . |
| 8 | It seems to be accepted that peers are not expected to contact the Lord Chancellor 's department before they speak extrajudicially in public . |
| 9 | Earl Spencer was not expected to survive the night . |
| 10 | The only specified penalty for the six republics which had not participated and were not expected to sign the Treaty ( Armenia , Estonia , Georgia , Latvia , Lithuania and Moldavia ) , was that they would thereby be excluded from a new " common economic space " . |
| 11 | So , in the case of non-delivery , the buyer is not expected to hunt the globe to find similar goods , Lesters Leather & Skin Co. v. Home & Oversees Brokers ( 1948 C.A. ) . |
| 12 | ‘ In many cases there will be commitments in the form of telexes or letters of intent but these are not expected to meet the requirements of the proposed legislation . |
| 13 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 14 | They can not expect to affect the development of a genius like Janacek . |
| 15 | The young baby in the carry-cot described by the IRA as an accident of war , the young nun serving the community described by the IRA as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a fireman trying to put out a blaze described by the IRA as helping the British war machine — we did not expect to reach the stage where the IRA would break every precept of human compassion and morality by bombing a hospital . |
| 16 | He did not expect to see the money again . |
| 17 | Well basically if you pay a hundred and sixty pound plus for a premium , you do not expect to get the sort end of the stick . |
| 18 | I really could not expect to pursue the matter if I wished to continue my training . |