Example sentences of "[noun] you expect " in BNC.
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1 | When you join the Royal Air Force you expect to work on some of the world 's deadliest aircraft , Jaguar Fighters , and harriers , but there 's another side to aviation . |
2 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
3 | ‘ Have you finished ? ’ they ask as you lie gasping , and when they switch on the light you expect to see a sign over the bed , NOW WASH YOUR HANDS . |
4 | Naturally , in football management you expect ridicule and criticism , and you must always rise above it , especially if it is constructive , but this poor excuse for a handkerchief seems obsessed not with football but with my receding hairline , e.g. the ‘ Spot The Baldy ’ competition on page two , and with making juvenile remarks about my beer gut . |
5 | He said : ‘ When you score three goals away from home you expect to take three points . |
6 | You should have some reasonable figure in here , given the speed of your VAX and the size of the QA activities you expect to be requested . |
7 | Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide , ’ it says . |
8 | Three more informants identified the clash of registers in " the sort of description you expect of old Salzburg and the simile " " like a half-eaten lunch " " " , which , again , they were unable as yet to resolve . |
9 | It comes with the incredible value for money you expect from any product that carries the Valor name . |
10 | Simple : the atomic reaction you expect is n't taking place , the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength . |
11 | This is not to say that we did n't experience all the anguish you expect in your schooldays , the pains of unpopularity or difficulties with hated subjects . |
12 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
13 | Yes , thought Berdichev ; but I 'm the last person you expected to see up here today . |
14 | The kind of service you expect ; the kind of service you deserve . |
15 | Its single dimension in a DIM statement would be the maximum number of names you expected in the table less 1 . |
16 | On that licence you have to indicate when you 're going to have erm this market , you have to indicate how many stalls , how many people you expect to attract , the times you 're gon na be open and you have to give a months notice . |
17 | ‘ Better we should see you off than those bastards you expected , is n't it ? ’ |
18 | Here the last thing you expect to see is one of the most exquisite small houses in the land ; yet here , glimpsed down a short straight avenue of completely inappropriate young cherry trees , is Lodge Park . |
19 | Erm so anything to do with minus one , or negative numbers you expect weird |
20 | The unmarked form of something is the form you expect to find . |
21 | • They are large format copies , produced to the standards you expect only from hardbacks . |
22 | These are large format , high quality editions produced to the standards you expect only from hardbacks . |
23 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
24 | Fate does work things out , you know — but never in the way you expect . ’ |
25 | And sometimes things do n't work out the way you expect them to . |
26 | ‘ The same way you expect me to keep myself for your use now , ’ Maria snapped derisively , scalded by the shame of the knowledge that that was exactly what she was going to do , and tired of hearing about her supposed affair with Florian . |
27 | We 've heard a lot about the accuracy of the continuing bombardments , but erm anybody who 's been in a war will tell you that erm once you 're in a war situation , things do n't always go the way you expect them to , in fact there has to be an element of luck and erm the accuracy of bombing in particular erm sometimes leaves something to be required . |
28 | We canna have everybody putting eights , nines and tens and nobody putting ones , twos , and threes because then it it becomes meaningless er , in relation to the section it 's got to bear some relation to what sort of standard you expect from a child at at such |
29 | What is unique about the contribution you expect from each member of your team ? |
30 | Like a bottle you expect to have whisky in and it turns out to be full of a specimen for the doctor . ’ |