Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to find a tiny shrunken corpse . |
| 2 | For today 's ceremony , she is expected to wear a favourite broad-brimmed hat and an over the knee pastel coloured dress . |
| 3 | The person to whom it is addressed can not be expected to conduct a minute linguistic analysis of what is said to him where this is accompanied by aggressive gestures . |
| 4 | When the operation is over and after nine weeks the plaster comes off , you expect to see a wasted thin limb . |
| 5 | Each governing body selected will be expected to provide a top senior coach and an assistant coach . |
| 6 | The long-serving boss was adamant that he wanted total commitment and effort in the build-up to the tie , which is expected to attract a 2,500 all-ticket crowd to College Road . |
| 7 | The long-serving boss was adamant that he wanted total commitment and effort in the build-up to the tie , which is expected to attract a 2,500 all-ticket crowd to College Road . |
| 8 | As for the internal auditors ' role , ‘ they 're not expected to do a full statutory audit but a great deal of the detailed work which , carried out on a continuous basis , would greatly increase the probability of detecting fraud . ’ |
| 9 | Having kept an unusually low profile throughout the Dewan election campaign , it was now felt that the military might press hard for the election of their choice of Vice-President , while Gen. ( retd ) Suharto , 71 , was expected to seek a fifth consecutive term of office as President . |
| 10 | Underlining the fact that the business was going nowhere , the transaction is not expected to have a material financial impact on either company . |
| 11 | The Fellow will be expected to have a strong quantitative background in Industrial or Financial Economics or similar research discipline and be capable of handling very large computerised data sets . |
| 12 | They are expected to take a full medical history and perform a physical examination . |
| 13 | DOZENS of people are expected to join a sponsored five-mile walk at the weekend to campaign for an end to the killing of whales . |
| 14 | Now she is in her second year and is expected to become a Registered General Nurse ( RGN ) . |
| 15 | ‘ We could hardly expect to find a crack Soviet pilot who is an open dissident . |
| 16 | If you learned to fly on an American machine , you will expect to apply a little left foot as you raise the collective and increase the power . |
| 17 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 18 | ‘ Leicester is a city in which we should expect to have a good general bookshop , and we shall be looking for a bigger and better site in the city . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't expect to have a fresh young plant like you by my side , all my life . ’ |
| 20 | Expecting to meet a hard-faced predatory bitch after David 's warning , Julia discovered instead a delicately pretty fair-haired girl , who was obviously in love with her saturnine husband . |
| 21 | Mark arrived at his office expecting to have a few clear days ahead to finalise the European Business Plan and prepare his presentation to Cocello . |
| 22 | If HaL meets its promised dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun that expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 23 | If HaL meets its reported dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun which expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 24 | Progress on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project , expected to become an important additional source of income and employment , was not expected to be affected by the political crisis in February 1990 ; the military government confirmed its intention of proceeding with the scheme under which hydroelectricity was to be generated in Lesotho and water was to be diverted from a catchment area in Lesotho to South Africa 's industrial heartland in the Transvaal [ see pp. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] . |