Example sentences of "expect [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This machine is no exception , and the quality of the build is better than you might expect for a bog-standard clone . |
| 2 | They were paid about double what a skilled man could expect for a fifty-hour week in return for working part-time at something that they enjoyed . |
| 3 | It is important to note that the consonants that have undergone assimilation have not disappeared ; in the above examples , the duration of the consonants remains more or less what one would expect for a two-consonant cluster . |
| 4 | What else would you expect after the rotten day I 'd had ? |
| 5 | Diphtheria and measles , against which mass vaccinations have also been instituted , showed fairly abrupt falls immediately after introduction of the respective vaccines and indicate what one might expect of a successful programme . |
| 6 | Whilst this might be true , for some years now invertebrate neurophysiologists ( by which is meant those who study invertebrates , not a special group of researchers without backbones ! ) , who used to speak of their pet organisms as having simple nervous systems , have rephrased their claim , and refer instead to them as having ‘ simple ’ nervous systems , the inverted commas being deliberately added as a recognition that the complexity of these systems is still many orders of magnitude higher than in the genuinely simple wiring that one might expect of a mere computer . |
| 7 | As Prime Minister I could not waste time having any internal arguments ’ or ‘ Yes , I do drive through things which I believe in passionately — what else do you expect of a Prime Minister ? |
| 8 | The theory has to cope with situations in which the dynamical properties of particles , such as electrons , protons and neutrons , and even atoms , are very different from what we would expect of a scaled-down billiard ball following its usual ‘ classical ’ behaviour . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 10 | Our military personnel structure combines the high standards and severe sanctions against personal failure you would expect with a more-than-generous salary . |
| 11 | Judging from American experience , general disclosure of APRs in line with Consumer Credit Act regulations will indeed make many more people aware of the sort of APR that they can expect with a particular type of credit . |
| 12 | I realize that if one looks at the matter objectively , one has to concede my father lacked various attributes one may normally expect in a great butler . |
| 13 | This is not something one would expect in a normal shop . |
| 14 | It is not therefore surprising that computing laboratories in universities put limits on the amount of output that users can expect in a given period of time . |
| 15 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 16 | All spoke here of man 's work — his enterprise , his pleasure ; stately hotels vied with one another , handsome shops displayed in their windows all the luxuries one might expect in the great cities of the realm . |
| 17 | Jean would appreciate a note from you about what royalties she might expect in the near future , remembering she 's had a 500 advance . |
| 18 | AS ONE might expect from a professional prosecutor , Barbara Mills , the Director of Public Prosecutions , last week called for defendants to lose the right to choose trial by jury . |
| 19 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 20 | Here the signs indicate that the cycle track ends and that cars are forbidden from entering , while the surface alterations and provision of bike parking would be what one would expect from a well-planned shopping centre . |
| 21 | Yet the quality , the range of frequencies we can detect , is only a fifth of that which we would expect from a reasonable Hi-Fi system . |
| 22 | The clean channel ranges from a sparkle to a dark , deep and warm tone — exactly what I 'd expect from a solid state clean channel . |
| 23 | You do have to bear in mind though that some of these films are very old , and this is the best picture quality you could expect from a standard VGA monitor and adapter . |
| 24 | As an all-round shoe , the System XC 6000 has many of the technical components you would expect from a top-of-the-range cushioning shoe and performed adequately . |
| 25 | As you might expect from a Swedish manufacturer , the heating and ventilation are superb ; you can supply cold air to the face and warm air to the feet at the same time . |
| 26 | As you 'd expect from a Japanese maker like Mazda , there 's a wide range of choice — where you want it . |
| 27 | The new Saab CD 2.3 Turbo delivers everything a high-flying chairman of the board could expect from a luxury limousine . |
| 28 | Johnson referred , characteristically , to ‘ the sort of bounce you would expect from a Scotch egg landing in a bowl of porridge ’ . |
| 29 | And , to make it all seem almost too good to be true the total number of possible W particles seen by both UA1 and UA2 is just what one would expect from the total number of proton-antiproton collisions that the two experiments have observed . |
| 30 | This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory . |