Example sentences of "[adv] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move anticipates tougher EC controls on sulphur dioxide emissions , widely expected next year . |
| 2 | Liese was doing a secretarial course , but they 'd all rather expected that . |
| 3 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 4 | We naturally expect British Rail to attach the greatest importance to safety considerations . |
| 5 | They only expect 12 around the dinner table these days at the family home at Stanton Harcourt . |
| 6 | So expect two years of dull , decent , gritty competence , explain the Major-domos — and steady , unspectacular results . |
| 7 | So expect some big changes to the type of tackle you will see at different events over the coming years . |
| 8 | The main cause of these differences is the hotel guests who come and go according to their own personal arrangements and who quite rightly expect high standards and quality service to be maintained throughout their stay . |
| 9 | Often they are organized by younger people who merely expect ageing members to be passive recipients of organized events . |
| 10 | That is to say , for 100 feet of water one could only expect 240 feet of sediment of normal density . |
| 11 | This Christian Socialist , dedicated to equal shares and to soaking the rich ( who included his own family ) , was accepted and frostily admired as an incorruptible thorn in the nation 's conscience , forever reminding them that there was no jam today and they could only expect some tomorrow if they had earned it . |
| 12 | Mozart wrote the part of Ramiro for a castrato , perhaps expecting greater power than Katherine Steffan conveyed , at least until the final aria when this previously rational character loses his cool . |
| 13 | It paused , obviously expecting some kind of shocked reaction . |
| 14 | Like , if he takes you to some crap trattoria , he 's only expecting half an hour of the missionary position . |
| 15 | I guess that one would not normally expect such a work to plumb the depths , or explore an emotional range equivalent to a full-scale symphony . |
| 16 | The organisation concerned would normally expect these roles to be occupied by men . |
| 17 | I would not normally expect this from a Severum — but then I have never heard of a Severum eating Halfbeaks . |
| 18 | The theme of the play ( as Lewis somehow expects all readers of his memoirs to remember ) is the rejection and suppression of erotic love . |
| 19 | He always expected other people to clean up after him . |
| 20 | We made amendments to our procedures on the advice of the support group , but we still expected negative comments . |
| 21 | So not every teacher was one hundred per cent successful with mixed ability teaching , but I do n't think one can ever expect that with a new method and I think now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 22 | So , not every teacher was one hundred per cent successful with mixed ability teaching , but I do n't think one can ever expect that with a new method . |
| 23 | If he condemns people who are outperforming his members , he can hardly expect much respect for their standards . |
| 24 | They 'll hardly expect separate cards from the two of us , though since you 're likely to be sending them one it would n't hurt to add my name to yours . |
| 25 | In an interspecies cross like the mule one would always expect marked differences between the two parents ' white cell antigens , and on the analogy with humans , habitual abortions should be rare . |
| 26 | Even if it has , you should not always expect reliable reading of a file on a 5.25 inch disk when it has been written on a 1.2MB drive and you are attempting to read the file on a 360K drive . |
| 27 | It was as if he were always expecting bad news to be relayed to him . |
| 28 | The firm works to relatively short product life-cycles , but still expects some learning to occur . |
| 29 | Wholesalers reported an increase in sales compared with last year , reversing the previous trend , and they also expect strong growth in sales in February . |
| 30 | It was also expected that government spending would be cut by 10 per cent , that state companies would be privatized and that sales taxes would be increased . |