We almost expected to see Labour and Tory backbenchers start a game of five-a-side foothell in the no-man's land between the two red lines down the middle of the Chamber.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit fresh records above 22,000 this week, due largely to a daily trickle of second-quarter profit reports, most of them so sunny we almost expected a few bunnies and unicorns doodled in the margins.
And we almost expect the daring modern artist to run afoul of censors and expatriate himself.
Ever since Kennedy, we almost expect a president to be a bit Irish.
Up to 40percentt of children contract regular seasonal flu, said Dr. Nathan Litman, director of pediatric infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York City, who added, "We almost expect that as soon as school is open we'll start seeing increased numbers".
These days, minor to not-so-minor kittenfishing is so common, we almost expect some fakery from our romantic interests.
We almost expect the CIA to play dirty in these types of stories, but if the press is in on it too, we really have some problems.
But, we have come to a point where we almost expect politicians to lie to us and, when they do the opposite of the very things they promised during their election, we just shrug and accept it.
"Time and again, we forgive prominent men — politicians, actors, singers, comedians — for their bad behavior, as though we almost expect it of them, while judging and criticizing famous women disproportionately for much smaller transgressions," Marin Cogan wrote in a Vox piece Thursday.
We can almost expect foods we know we "should be eating" to eventually produce some research that will show remarkable properties.
In McCabe, California Split (1974), and Nashville (1975) in particular, there is always the feeling of life continuing offscreen; if the camera were suddenly to whirl about 180 degrees, we would almost expect to see more of the life of the movie, rather than Altman and his crew members.
