Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [art] [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 | She certainly did not expect to see the beautiful cake especially made by Tina Denny , iced in Medau Blue , with our logo girl in one corner , or the surprise presentation of a charming Royal Doulton figurine , accompanied by much love and good wishes . |
| 6 | With the loss of the fish , we can expect to lose the electric-blue flash of the kingfisher . |
| 7 | One should not expect to obtain a detailed contract , but once a commitment is made it is for the long term . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The successful diplomate will thus expect to find a wide range of career and employment opportunities , especially in the industrial/commercial sector . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Students may then be asked in what physical form and in what situation they would expect to find a given piece of discourse . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Once an entry has been identified , the user will expect to find the complete term in order to distinguish it from others containing the same words . |
| 15 | If speculative efficiency is valid in the foreign exchange market , then we would expect to find the null hypothesis to be true . |
| 16 | With the old logo on the cover , though , we figured that many people would only expect to find the old-style pages within . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You should not expect to receive a detailed resume of your employment history with the company . |
| 19 | They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term . |
| 20 | A seller would normally expect to receive the current market value of the units within fourteen days . |
| 21 | However , as this is a riskless hedge the investor should expect to receive the riskless rate of return . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A trade unionism that is paralysed by an obsession with parliamentary lobbying and television training for general secretaries can scarcely expect to win the wholehearted support even of its own members , let alone women engaged in domestic labour , part-time workers or the unemployed . |
| 24 | Attlee did not expect to win the general election held on 5 July 1945 ( though the result was not declared until 26 July , to allow the votes of the Armed Forces to be garnered from around the globe ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Those who break it must expect to face the full force of the law . " |
| 29 | I would expect to get the broad picture and highlights and examples of . |
| 30 | Always ask for a slice cut freshly from the salame and do not expect to get the true flavour from a pre-cut chunk on a plate . |