Example sentences of "[adj] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few expected this year 's spring sales at Sotheby 's and Christie 's to do much to revive spirits , or prices . |
| 2 | In early October , as Mrs Thatcher — flanked by her Cabinet — received a nine-minute standing ovation at the close of a successful party conference , few expected any challenge to her in the leadership election which had to be held within 28 days of the start of the new parliamentary session , due to open on 7 November . |
| 3 | Japan 's real GDP shrank 0.1% in the fourth quarter of last year and few expect much of a recovery before the end of this year . |
| 4 | Two and a half months of a ‘ non-campaign ’ had changed nothing , and few expect much to change after the election either . |
| 5 | Is everything I did for Miss Elizabeth worthless and am I foolish to expect more of her ? |
| 6 | Those who are caring for the bereaved need to be prepared to expect all kinds of strange reactions and uncharacteristic behaviour from them occasionally . |
| 7 | It is felt by the Senior Management Team that the number of pupils achieving a very good standard of work which is reflected in high examination results could , in fact , be greater if the department were prepared to expect more of their pupils . |
| 8 | However , in present circumstances it would be unrealistic to expect ordinary citizens and all but the largest courts or law firms to be able to exploit the possibility . |
| 9 | Yet it is also unrealistic to expect one hour of teaching time per week to be sufficient to cover the information required for good patient care . |
| 10 | While it was unrealistic to expect one practitioner , with such limited practice , to make a significant difference to the workload of the department , it was possible to identify patients whose waiting time had been shortened because they were able to see an ENP . |
| 11 | It is unrealistic to expect one side or other to put forward a constructive proposal that is immediately acceptable to the other side . |
| 12 | Because of the scale of the need , the limitations of staff and resources and the pressure of other work it is unrealistic to expect that local authorities could provide a comprehensive training programme immediately . |
| 13 | It is , perhaps , unrealistic to expect all these roles and responsibilities to be vested in the one person of the fertility counsellor , who works in an underfunded area of treatment where resources are continually diminishing . |
| 14 | It is , however , unrealistic to expect all of these to be visible in all locations , especially in rural areas where the balance of tenures differs considerably from the national picture . |
| 15 | Whilst recognising the need to introduce measures that would make Colleges more self-supporting , it was considered unrealistic to expect such measures to be effective immediately . |
| 16 | It is unrealistic to expect social workers to empathise with the child , the mother and the abuser , ’ says Bernadette Manning , head of child protection . |
| 17 | This was clearly identified in the consensus statement from the King 's Fund : ‘ Until teaching is recognised to be an important professional activity ( comparable in status to clinical service , research and management ) it is unrealistic to expect those involved to devote the necessary time and effort to planning and implementing any new curriculum . ’ |
| 18 | It is both unfair and unrealistic to expect those who remain to make further sacrifices in order to service the sensibilities of visitors . |
| 19 | It is unrealistic to expect those with incomes just above the level of income support to pay contributions . |
| 20 | However , City economists expect Britain 's trade deficit to improve , but with few expecting next year 's trade gap to be better than the £15 billion figure forecast by Mr Major in his autumn statement . |
| 21 | Women born in 1945–59 expected 2.27 children ; women born in 1960–4 expect 2.33 on average . |
| 22 | Seven out of 10 expect Labour to be the biggest party and on average they predict the FT-SE 100 index will be almost 80 points lower than last night 's close of 2393.2 if Neil Kinnock is in Downing Street tomorrow . |
| 23 | While it is probably too much to expect English politicians to learn from Scotland , I would have hoped that in Scotland we will still try to understand the problems rather than take refuge in moral outrage and simply condemn . |
| 24 | But perhaps it is asking too much to expect some sort of articulated political goal — especially of the young adolescents who are responsible for the bulk of working-class crime . |
| 25 | But it would be too much to expect foolproof results from either method : personal assessment based on experience ; or the more objective actuarial credit-scoring system . |
| 26 | It would be too much to expect convergent evolution to have produced a single thrifty genotype in all populations by chance , and the most likely situation is that several genes have been selected in different combinations , in different populations , to produce a phenotypically similar syndrome . |
| 27 | It is ill-advised to expect high-flying academics alone to provide the necessary raw material in our communications industry . |
| 28 | It is impractical to expect any party to draw trouble on himself by notifying the other of a potential claim . |
| 29 | It is not yet possible to expect any therapy to eliminate HIV from the body and anti-viral therapies will have to be taken for long periods , maybe for life . |
| 30 | The fans have got a right to expect that , ’ said Keegan . |