Example sentences of "expect [pron] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 2 | We thus expect there to be a significant region right next to the wall in which the velocity profile is linear , |
| 3 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Lord Hunt will be looking at these and many other areas in which we expect there to be a lively public debate . ’ |
| 5 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't expect me to be a faithful husband , will you ? |
| 7 | DAMON HILL joined the elite band of Formula One drivers yesterday and then warned : ‘ Do n't expect me to be the new Nigel Mansell . ’ |
| 8 | For this reason one might expect there to be no large change in surface energy between liquid and solid glass so that surface tension and therefore surface energy , measured quite easily on molten glass , ought to be approximately applicable to the same glass when hardened . |
| 9 | In other words we should expect there to be a one to one inverse relationship , probably non-linear , of the form where and , probably , . |
| 10 | So you 'd expect there to be a big change in the social impacts of unemployment . |
| 11 | Not to her father 's villa — he 'd expect her to be a radiant bride just back from her honeymoon . |
| 12 | but they 're bonded to different groupings so , for example , if one had something like this er , let's call that see three , page seven if I had something like that that central carbon there and when they draw these things at an exam paper , do n't expect it to be the central one . |
| 13 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 14 | Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home ! |
| 15 | As soon as you walk through the archway , I mean you 'd expect it to be an open |
| 16 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 17 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
| 18 | John Hinde , boss of the Manchester store , said : ‘ Nobody expected him to be the real thing . ’ |
| 19 | He expected it to be the only example of its species on which he would set eyes . |
| 20 | But I mean you know he 's a workaholic and he expects everybody to be the same and then he works in there by the time I get there in the morning he works , works solidly right through until I leave there at night , you know . |
| 21 | She expects him to be an untidy swimmer , but is irritated to find that he has a smooth powerful crawl which takes him through the water swiftly and seriously . |