Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Related to that view is the naive assumption of certain sociobiologists that sociobiology should expect to be more closely related to social anthropology than to other social sciences , because the ‘ primitive ’ peoples studied by social anthropology are nearer to nature than human beings who live in large industrialized societies . ) |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone who had a possible interest in your brother 's death must expect to be thoroughly investigated . ’ |
| 3 | Now that I 'm a family member I 'll expect to be properly insured and have a maintenance contract . ’ |
| 4 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 5 | Those who remained loyal could expect to be generously rewarded , in position if not always in money . |
| 6 | If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents . |
| 7 | Finally , when the war was over , the political groupings which had given the Nationalists their moral and material support would not only not disappear , but would expect to be duly recompensed and might even expect to take over the legislative and executive control of the New State . |
| 8 | Churchmen , whom one would expect to be most militant about the matter , responded with anything from sceptical but unsurprised indifference to outright endorsement . |
| 9 | But this Sunday they 've all got something in common — it 's Father 's Day , the one day of the year when they can expect to be thoroughly pampered and spoiled by the rest of the family for a change . |
| 10 | They will have to answer for the team 's performances and can expect to be closely questioned on how often they saw those performances . |
| 11 | The Wanderers ' manager , Phil Neal , has some way to go before he can expect to be so honoured but he collected several brownie points after his side 's spirited performance . |