Example sentences of "[verb] to expect [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers appear to expect few benefits to accrue from residential care . |
| 2 | Lawrence described Pears as marvellous ‘ but then we have come to expect those sort of saves from him . ’ |
| 3 | Of course , one has to expect such things to occur amongst maids and footmen , and a good butler should always take this into account in his planning ; but such marrying amongst more senior employees can have an extremely disruptive effect on work . |
| 4 | The tippee need not only knowingly obtain the information from an individual connected with a company ( as defined above ) who he knows or has reasonable cause to believe holds the information by being so connected , he must also know or have reasonable cause to expect that individual not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of that individuals duties . |
| 5 | Already by the late middle ages the English were beginning to expect more space and more privacy in their houses than was to be normal in Scandinavia for another three centuries . |
| 6 | Whilst they can probably get away with spot colour separations , and indeed many of them produce excellent spot separated material , the world now seems to expect that process colour separation will follow just as easily . |
| 7 | She suddenly remembered that she had n't thought to offer him a tip — although , unlike the awful Elise , he had n't seemed to expect any payment . |
| 8 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 9 | If people come to expect that interest rates will normally be higher than they used to be , then any given interest rate will seem lower relative to the ‘ normal ’ rate than it used to be . |
| 10 | We have to expect more wastage , ca n't keep putting it in and out of the fridge , could poison somebody . |