Example sentences of "[adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He will not expect miracles , only a reasonable standard of proficiency . |
| 32 | In his inaugural address Konare warned that the country should not expect miracles ; although he wished to bring hope to the country , he said , he was not a " pedlar of illusion " . |
| 33 | He does not expect miracles from Lennie and is not at all surprised when Lennie forgets things , even though he gets angry at him . |
| 34 | We do not expect prices to rise generally for a further two years . |
| 35 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 36 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 37 | Recalled from America in 1806 by the Grenville–Fox government , Merry , a Pittite , did not expect reassignment . |
| 38 | He did not expect Osman openly to agree but he thought it quite likely that the Sheikh might indicate his willingness to accept Owen 's proposition . |
| 39 | But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms . |
| 40 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 41 | Do not expect equipment to withstand abuse , if it did it would be unaffordable . |
| 42 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 43 | We do not expect doctors to run an intensive care unit simply by measuring the pulse rates of their patients . |
| 44 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 45 | With a Basis Loan our proportion of the equity is normally 10–20% — and Barclays will not expect board representation . |
| 46 | She did not expect letters but on hearing from her the news of Hal 's birth , they had at once despatched an enormous bearskin : a gift for the child . |
| 47 | The Zande do not expect things to work unless they are properly made . |
| 48 | The government , which did not expect Sweden to gain admission to the EC before 1994 , had previously expressed interest in framing a joint application with Norway and Finland . |
| 49 | Hence we can not expect markets and prices to ensure that the marginal benefits of making a noise are equated to the marginal cost of that noise to other people . |
| 50 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 51 | One would not expect coral thickness exceeding 90 m ( 300 ft ) if only glacial control had been involved in the formation of coral islands . |
| 52 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 53 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 54 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 55 | Lawson says do not expect EMS news |
| 56 | ‘ We tell our residents that we offer homes for life , and we do not expect people to move on , ’ she explained . |
| 57 | Here the modest claim is made that without the social services , a section of the population will be permanently unemployed because in advanced industrial societies ‘ we can not expect industry to create many extra jobs because of the speed of technical change and job-saving investment . ’ |
| 58 | We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth . |
| 59 | System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months . |
| 60 | They do not expect security guarantees . |