Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may not expect consumer behaviour , right , to be the same at all prices and quantities basically but er , nevertheless , you will probably see more linear demand curves than nonlinear ones because they are somewhat simpler . |
| 2 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |
| 3 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 4 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 5 | As the anticipated " crisis " fades from memory , we might also expect managers to show less concern for improving the career prospects and conditions of work of nurses . |
| 6 | We might therefore expect B's utterance to be interpreted as a non-co-operative response , a brushing aside of A's concerns with a change of topic . |
| 7 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 8 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 9 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 10 | We ca n't expect gratitude , any more than we want charity from others . |
| 11 | We ca n't expect help from her . ’ |
| 12 | I know this is a bit of an affront to our high opinion of ourselves as human beings , er , of course many people regard it that way , but erm my view is that er we ca n't expect science necessarily to tell us things we want to hear . |
| 13 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 14 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 15 | Here the modest claim is made that without the social services , a section of the population will be permanently unemployed because in advanced industrial societies ‘ we can not expect industry to create many extra jobs because of the speed of technical change and job-saving investment . ’ |
| 16 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 17 | Of course we can not expect linguists , text critics or publishers to explain to us how best to interpret , mark and process those classically ambiguous phrases which are now the stock and trade of historical data modelling exercises . |
| 18 | We can not expect pupils to learn the sophistication necessary for handling difficult concepts if we constantly draw a veil over them and shut pupils off from the real debate . |
| 19 | Hence we can not expect markets and prices to ensure that the marginal benefits of making a noise are equated to the marginal cost of that noise to other people . |
| 20 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 21 | We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth . |
| 22 | We can also expect de-recognition by employers who are frightened to death by the T & G. It it 's already happening . |
| 23 | We can hardly expect adolescents to have respect for the possessions of others if they have no hope of attaining any of their own . |
| 24 | But it may be that more fundamental changes to the present institutional arrangements for audit will be needed before we can realistically expect auditors to be proactive in assessing and reporting on business risk . |