Example sentences of "expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 2 | David was loyal to a fault , and in his naive understanding quietly expected the same kind of loyalty in return . |
| 3 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
| 4 | Although new firms continue to enter the market , most commentators expect the total number of GEMMs to decline further . |
| 5 | Users rightly expect the same standard of packaging as is found with other resources such as books and audiovisual material . |
| 6 | Furthermore , we would expect any doctor , not just our own , to behave in the ‘ proper ’ manner , in the same way that we expect the same sort of behaviour from all shop assistants , or all priests , or all fathers . |
| 7 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 8 | You still have to be on top of your stuff , though — judges expect a certain level of competence to staging a little-girl-lost act in court will do no good whatsoever . |
| 9 | Event organisers , The Ivory Tower , in association with ‘ Duke of Gloucester ’ Steam Locomotive Trust and Crewe Heritage Centre , expect a large number of visitors and supporters to come and cheer them on . |
| 10 | ‘ Our customers expect a high level of knowledge . |
| 11 | This increase seems to be part of a broader social trend in which clients increasingly expect a high quality of service from professional people . |
| 12 | You expect a whole speech of explanation . |
| 13 | Find one in good condition and it will give endless pleasure but , being an old design , expect a fair amount of maintenance . |
| 14 | Ferry lines expect a huge rush of passengers taking advantage of the new freedom . |
| 15 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
| 16 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 17 | It is possible that , not being aware of the limitations brought about by the Project 's staffing numbers , non-participants had expected an unreasonable level of support . |
| 18 | With no disincentives for patients to request night visits and incentives for general practitioners to visit can we expect the increased level of activity to yield health or welfare benefits or avoid costs elsewhere in the system ? |
| 19 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 20 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |
| 21 | ‘ Surely you do n't expect the same kind of generosity from me ? |
| 22 | If Susanna Jennens had encouraged her to read and write at Weston Hall , Leapor could not really expect the same sort of understanding and support from another employer . |
| 23 | Rather , we would simply expect the relative demotion of conformity ( in terms of both goals and means ) as against deviance , because it offers less . |
| 24 | As you would expect the high level of vitality in children means they respond quickly and they generally wo n't need as many doses of the remedy . |
| 25 | Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty . |
| 26 | Why did he expect a good crop of sugarbeet ? |
| 27 | What appalling style , even twenty years ago one could expect a better standard of English . |
| 28 | Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions . |
| 29 | If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that . |
| 30 | For example , scales a tritone or a semitone apart have only two notes in common ; all other notes are different , and so one can expect a considerable degree of conflict unless ( as in the Bartók example ) adequate vertical consonance can be maintained . |