Example sentences of "expect to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who pursue explication can expect to be seen as suspicious , for they embody the marginality of the anthropologist , described by Lévi-Strauss ( 1973 : 67 ) as being someone who is ‘ psychologically speaking maimed , an amputee ’ . |
| 2 | Do n't expect to be selected on your first session ! |
| 3 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 4 | The Newmarket trainer runs Top Class in the Longchamp spectacular and the faithful backing Brittain will expect to be laughing all the way to the bank as they help themselves to the generous 40-1 on offer . |
| 5 | They will have to answer for the team 's performances and can expect to be closely questioned on how often they saw those performances . |
| 6 | Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ . |
| 7 | Although Teague has resumed light training , he looks certain to miss England 's match against Fiji on 4 November and has told his club that he does not expect to be fit until the middle of next month . |
| 8 | Over a twelve-month period a field-worker 's persistent inquisitiveness is bound to become something of an irritant , and van Maanen notes how field-workers can not expect to be liked by all respondents ( 1982 : 111 ) . |
| 9 | None of this meant that American companies were no longer interested in financing British filmmakers or even British ideas , but they were no longer committed to doing so , and did n't expect to be sufficiently involved to justify keeping offices in London . |
| 10 | She did not expect to be Prime Minister into the next millenium . |
| 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 . |
| 12 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 13 | On that evidence , therefore , and in spite of last night 's ominous phrases that the government would not tolerate ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ , it seems that the statement is more likely to be a specific warning — that people breaking in to armouries to steal weapons or ammunition could expect to be met by physical force — than a sign that the military are planning a political takeover . |
| 14 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 15 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 16 | How can we expect to be lifted by the language of prayer ‘ if the sentence itself needs to be lifted — by a stretcher ? ’ he asked . |
| 17 | How can we expect to be lifted by the language of prayer ‘ if the sentence itself needs to be lifted — by a stretcher ? ’ he asked . |
| 18 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 19 | Nor can he always rely on the help of those who in any other industry or service you might expect to be on his side . |
| 20 | Do n't expect to be seen out with me if you do . |
| 21 | In the late afternoon the Committee pulled its favourite form of persuasion : it went into secret session , with a direction that if he did n't sing in secret he could expect to be jailed for contempt of Congress ( i.e. the committee ) . |
| 22 | For I can not expect to be offered help , nobody else will care to take a turn at the heavy work of pushing . |
| 23 | The Irish Republic is a Catholic country and even those Protestants who do not expect to be actively persecuted doubt that they will have full civil and religious liberty when the major religious institution refuses to engage in fair competition by , for example , permitting the parents free choice of their child 's religion in the case of mixed marriage . |
| 24 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 25 | I did not therefore expect to be invited here and was resigned to being by myself yet again and sure my spirits would once more be lowered . |
| 26 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 27 | The answer is 0.9 recurring , but I do not expect to be awarded great sums of public money for this discovery , which I freely give to the world ; nor do I demand the overthrow of government and its takeover by a gang of lower-class hooligans . |
| 28 | The Tories can then expect to be returned within a couple of years , by an England — Disraeli did not mention Scotland or Wales — which has once again proved it does not love coalitions . |
| 29 | ‘ Ulster Unionists ’ can be patronised as fractious tribesmen ; Northern Ireland Conservatives might expect to be treated as equals . |
| 30 | Hooker Olver , the England bench reserve for a record 27 times , explained : ‘ My friends at the Stoop did n't expect to be playing for the club at Easter , but now their re-arranged league game with Orrell is on the Monday . |