Example sentences of "[not/n't] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed . |
| 2 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |
| 3 | Abolitionists did not expect immediate conversion by slaveholders ; it was not necessary in so far as they were sure planters could not for long resist the economic imperatives . |
| 4 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 5 | Love Virgos involved in a new relationship should not expect much progress until at least early December . |
| 6 | But do not expect much new philosophy from the present government . |
| 7 | I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity . |
| 8 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 9 | People are realizing that you just can not expect much of them and that one way of improving local lives is to get together in local communities and groups and participating wider area networks and in such coalitions of people , th th they manage to keep some sort of community spirit and activity going . |
| 10 | Do not expect instant results , especially if the baby has diarrhoea or colic — it may take up to two weeks for the baby 's digestive system to return to normal . |
| 11 | Although a company can not expect all staff offered transfers to other parts of the country to accept them , it can take steps to improve employees ' attitudes towards relocation . |
| 12 | Although we predict that many of these sites are DNA-PK phosphorylation sites , we do not expect all Ser-Gln motifs to serve as DNA-PK recognition elements . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I did not expect that from you . ’ |
| 14 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 15 | We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances . |
| 16 | ‘ I would not expect that . |
| 17 | Complaints about government appointments or policies could only be met by Law with the barren reply that the party could not expect total control and that in coalition such things must happen — which is just what the critics were saying too . |
| 18 | ‘ The bad is that we can not expect sharp short term demand recovery , certainly not recovery pulled through by exports ’ , he explained . |
| 19 | With so many airlines strapped for cash and with costs increasing , passengers should not expect many more fare-wars . |
| 20 | Even so we do not expect such spells to lead to permanent changes in our lifestyle . |
| 21 | But one should not expect such economic movements to determine the details of changing musical practice in any mechanical way . |
| 22 | Do not expect such a dramatic improvement on all of your reports but they will all benefit from a modest improvement . |
| 23 | Another implication of ( 16 ) , or ( 15 ) , is that , apart from questioning the adjective , the language would also provide a means to question the noun phrase alone while " leaving behind " the predicate qualifier ( even though one might not expect such questions to be particularly common in practice ) , and in fact such questions are perfectly grammatical : ( 21 ) who(m) did he paint seated ? what did he send registered ? |
| 24 | In ( 2 ) , for instance , the idea of unmanly seems to correspond to what caused the person represented as the support of the infinitive to perform the action of treating a woman badly , and the sentence suggests that the speaker did not expect such unmanly behaviour from the person he is addressing . |
| 25 | I did not expect such kindness … |
| 26 | He added that he did not expect such an acceptable method of slaughter to evolve in the near future . |
| 27 | The West should not expect outstanding interest to be paid off before 1993 . |
| 28 | But do not expect American protectionists to give up : next year , as domestic demand revives , the deficit will surely widen again . |
| 29 | We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’ |
| 30 | You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers . |