Example sentences of "[not/n't] expect much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love Virgos involved in a new relationship should not expect much progress until at least early December . |
| 2 | But do not expect much new philosophy from the present government . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The dispatch of yet another deadbeat Tory , Sir Patrick Mayhew , to Northern Ireland is a warning not to expect much political progress in the province . |
| 7 | Not expecting much action , I had n't bothered to put on boots , let alone waders . |
| 8 | But do n't expect much more than pompous doggerel in the words . |
| 9 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |
| 10 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 11 | But I do n't expect much change out of £6,000 . ’ |
| 12 | If you do n't expect much from little Tommy then , little Tommy is less and less likely to give you anything much ! |
| 13 | He was n't expecting much to have come in during his absence but if nothing else there should be something from the foreign residents department at the Questura . |