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 | You should not expect to receive a detailed resume of your employment history with the company . |
| 13 | They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We may expect to generate a better estimate by using pseudo-costs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It could expect to defeat a lesser power like Argentina , but taking on Communist China was unthinkable . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ministers could expect to have a parliamentary majority whatever they did . |
| 25 | Students can expect to spend a substantial part of their courses doing practical laboratory work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only operators able to fill their trains could expect to make a reasonable profit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Do n't expect to make a speculative fortune with old jewellery , but it is fun to collect and should hold its price , whereas you 'll be lucky to get half your money back on anything bought in a shop . |