Example sentences of "expect [noun] to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 2 | ‘ People expect women to be highly emotional . |
| 3 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 4 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |
| 5 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't expect things to be just good when you do them , however . |
| 7 | We would expect horses to be more comfortable with a horse that looked like itself because it would also be likely to look like its mother . |
| 8 | There seemed little reason to expect conditions to be more favourable further east under Mesozoic cover ; few wells enter the thrust sheets which are expected there , and none are deep enough to prove what lies beneath them . |
| 9 | In many instances , however , it would be unreasonable to expect people to be readily able to articulate the rules which guide their behaviour . |
| 10 | But Benny had not grown up expecting life to be totally perfect . |
| 11 | During dinner at the Pheasantry , Ian clearly expected Clare to be frivolously entertaining . |