Example sentences of "expect [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kulaks who joined the Imperial Navy , even in the commissioned ranks , did not normally expect to enjoy a long life . |
| 2 | erm we do n't expect to see a great change in that . |
| 3 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
| 4 | It anticipated that business failures of established companies will continue to rise into the first quarter of 192 and did not expect to see a significant fall in the level of failures for up to 18 months . |
| 5 | One should not expect to obtain a detailed contract , but once a commitment is made it is for the long term . |
| 6 | This comparative static result suggests that in empirical work we would expect to observe a positive correlation between alternative wages or unemployment benefits , and union wages and membership , but also possibly a sharp discontinuity in this relationship . |
| 7 | The successful diplomate will thus expect to find a wide range of career and employment opportunities , especially in the industrial/commercial sector . |
| 8 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 9 | A 400-year-old school for boys in Shrewsbury is hardly the place you might expect to find a true example of hi-tech living . |
| 10 | Students may then be asked in what physical form and in what situation they would expect to find a given piece of discourse . |
| 11 | This practice was only varied if there was some known defect in the title , and if that was so , one could expect to find a special condition on the contract , indicating that the buyer would take the title as it stood , and would not raise requisitions after contracts were exchanged . |
| 12 | The quality of product delivered by BR management is experienced daily by the many thousands who travel to and from Waterloo , where the indicator boards are frequently inactive at peak travel time in the evening , and only the desultory , forlorn and uncertain voices of junior staff is available to advise hapless passengers over the tannoy when and where they might expect to find an uncancelled train to get them home on time — if they are lucky — and to deliver an occasional apology . |
| 13 | You should not expect to receive a detailed resume of your employment history with the company . |
| 14 | They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term . |
| 15 | The great man might expect to play a major part in the design of the building , as Maxwell did when the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was built following his appointment in 1871 , as the first professor of experimental physics . |
| 16 | We may expect to generate a better estimate by using pseudo-costs . |
| 17 | Davy at the end of his life remarked that the service of the laboratory was a service of danger ; that few chemists could expect to retain a quick eye and a steady hand for very long , and would have to rely on the hands and eyes of assistants . |
| 18 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
| 19 | For all of this , you might well expect to pay a premium price , but with a recommended price of £149 , which is very likely to be discounted to under the £100 mark , DesignWorks lies in the ‘ affordable ’ bracket . |
| 20 | It could expect to defeat a lesser power like Argentina , but taking on Communist China was unthinkable . |
| 21 | You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school . |
| 22 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 23 | Most obviously , both women and men can expect to have a recognizable period of ‘ old age ’ when they have ceased paid work , the creation of a standard age of retirement from work being a twentieth century phenomenon . |
| 24 | To look at possible locations and I would hope and expect to have a positive contribution from the district council representatives on that , and the county . |
| 25 | Ministers could expect to have a parliamentary majority whatever they did . |
| 26 | Apart from these and some other editions and issues remarkable in one way or another , the collector can expect to have an easier time financially than in many other fields of collecting . |
| 27 | Students can expect to spend a substantial part of their courses doing practical laboratory work . |
| 28 | There is a great deal to be learnt about committee work and the new councillor must expect to undergo a probationary period in some of the less important committees of the council . |
| 29 | Only operators able to fill their trains could expect to make a reasonable profit . |
| 30 | There were at least a dozen big-wave specialists on the North Shore who , if the Eddie Aikau were actually to be held , could reasonably expect to make a small fortune . |