Example sentences of "[adv] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We naturally expect British Rail to attach the greatest importance to safety considerations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Often they are organized by younger people who merely expect ageing members to be passive recipients of organized events . |
| 4 | He always expected other people to clean up after him . |
| 5 | We made amendments to our procedures on the advice of the support group , but we still expected negative comments . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was as if he were always expecting bad news to be relayed to him . |
| 10 | Wholesalers reported an increase in sales compared with last year , reversing the previous trend , and they also expect strong growth in sales in February . |
| 11 | Insurance companies understandably expect proper precautions to be taken for the security and safe storage of musical instruments . |
| 12 | Moscow could also expect Iraqi interest in Brezhnev 's initiative since Baghdad had floated a ‘ Pan-Arab Charter ’ early in 1980 , which inter alia had asserted the need to keep the Gulf free from all superpower bases . |
| 13 | Some 70 per cent of Borders properties can also expect reduced demands for water tax . |
| 14 | Earlier this week the management was confidently expecting firm production orders within a matter of days . |
| 15 | Larder , who has given the captaincy to tough utility forward Paul Hulme , is also expecting great things from giant Welsh second rower Paul Moriarty . |
| 16 | Tower Hamlets ' GP Sue Anderson is also expecting massive problems due to the government 's formula for allocating funds to local authorities . |
| 17 | One also expects direct perceptual skills to be a feature of sign learning . |
| 18 | I think if you all make a mess you should be severely reprimanded quite frankly expect other people to come round and pick up your mess . |
| 19 | Any answer to this question depends very much on how many workers can realistically expect permanent employment and in what sense pay is related to age . |
| 20 | On this view , we can only realistically expect positivist criminology to produce ‘ probabilistic ’ theories — associating variability of cause with variability of outcome ; we should expect no more than loose associations between specified causal variables and criminal behaviour . |
| 21 | They do n't really expect Labour to make things any better . |
| 22 | But City law firm Berwin Leighton , acting for the National Union of Journalists and the Graphical Paper and Media Union , said yesterday that all fund members could now expect full payment . |
| 23 | The market is now expecting pre-tax profits to emerge at about £70m this year , a far cry from the £138m taxable profits reported in 1988 . |
| 24 | Finally , where there are important divisions between kinds of culture and society , one might well expect systematic differences between the associated languages for example , it is likely that literacy has systematic effects on the lexical , syntactic and semantic structure of languages , even if these have never been spelt out ( see Goody , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | Even so , when handling and riding horses , we really need to be able to anticipate their emotions , actions and reactions , rather than simply expecting perfect behaviour and performance from them . |
| 26 | You do n't climb aboard a Rolls or Bentley today expecting state-of-the-art answers . |
| 27 | We almost expected Red Indians ’ . |
| 28 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
| 29 | ‘ We therefore expect widespread interest from a variety of types of companies looking to relocate in a town with the high quality of life Southport has to offer particularly to the golf enthusiast . ’ |
| 30 | We must therefore expect certain aspects of computer design to reappear throughout the book , to be seen from a slightly different angle each time . |