Example sentences of "[noun sg] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 2 | IF THE Chancellor expected consistent advice backed by irresistible logic from the first submission from his seven wise men , he will have been disappointed by their 80-page text plus statistical appendix yesterday . |
| 3 | The group is warning Borders Regional Council to expect vigorous opposition whenever a school is singled out for review . |
| 4 | The National Gallery expects huge crowds and strong sales of the Barnes 's first colour catalogue , published by Knopf and printed handsomely by Pizzi . |
| 5 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 6 | As far as I 'm concerned the person paying my salary has a right to expect total loyalty . ’ |
| 7 | Viewers have a right to expect serious events , serious issues , serious journalism to be tackled at length in primetime — and that is what the BBC is committed to doing . |
| 8 | Civil rights were to include the freedom to join labour unions , the right to strike and the right to expect equal opportunity in employment irrespective of gender , race or creed . |
| 9 | The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations . |
| 10 | The British Government had every right to expect uninhibited American support in ensuring the success of this impracticable settlement : it was not forthcoming . |
| 11 | Investors provide the cash expecting high returns ; to get the money , a firm must be looking at pretty profitable investment opportunities . |
| 12 | The leader expects personal , sycophantic devotion from his staff and followers . |
| 13 | AS the biggest Whitehall shake-up in two decades gets under way , there is firm evidence that the civil service expected Labour to win the election . |
| 14 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
| 15 | At some level of expenditure it presumably becomes inequitable for a disabled person to expect public support for the more expensive domiciliary care if this means depriving someone else of care of any sort . |
| 16 | Policemen standing yards from where 95 soccer fans died in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster were last night expecting disciplinary charges . |
| 17 | However , there is indirect evidence that the orbit of a binary pair , one member of which is the pulsar PSR 1913+16 , is collapsing at exactly the rate expected due to the loss of energy in gravitational radiation . |
| 18 | It was no use expecting Sien to be able to understand books or art , but then their attachment was based on something else , on reality , of which books and art were only a part . |
| 19 | Personally , I have always thought it a great mistake to expect young people to be interested in politics . |
| 20 | After all , it is common sense to expect low margins in the United States , given the intensity of the competition there . |
| 21 | Even if the North Sea oil bonus is stripped out , the firm expects Scottish growth of 1.4 per cent after a fall of 1.3 per cent in non-oil output between 1991 and 1992 . |
| 22 | The tradesman expects heavy use from his machinery , and will replace brushes himself to save on ‘ down time ’ . |
| 23 | Another consideration is that the government expects high-technology' industries to grow by 10 per cent a year for the next decade . |
| 24 | However , the government expects local authorities to encourage independent suppliers and make ‘ wider use of service specifications , agency agreements and contracts . ’ |
| 25 | NEC Corp expects personal computer shipments in 1993-94 to increase by 10% to 1.37m units as a result of the government 's increased spending on computers for schools and public institutions : according to Reuter , NEC sees its personal computer sales rising in the second half of the fiscal when public institutions start to introduce the machines ; in the year to March , NEC 's personal computer shipments were down by 5% . |
| 26 | There were several who thought that Rich was too much of a burden to expect Elfed to bear . |
| 27 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 28 | Our own experiments with people 's ability to juggle credit-cost options give no reason to expect different results here . |
| 29 | Halliday ( 1967 ) has a rather odd-looking set of tones : There is , of course , no particular reason to expect linguistic systems to be tidy and symmetrical , but I find it hard to see why Halliday chose these particular tones . |
| 30 | The company expected legal action , and it got it . |