Example sentences of "expect a [adj -er] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retailers expect a bigger improvement in June , but their expectations have proved to be over-optimistic in the past two months . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What appalling style , even twenty years ago one could expect a better standard of English . |
| 4 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
| 5 | It is also possible that late nineteenth and early twentieth-century working class women expected a greater degree of drunkenness and violence on the part of husbands than would be tolerated today . |
| 6 | In the final , expecting a tougher time against Norfolk , they ran out 7–0 winners with Old Loughts ' Ian Barker and Krishnan both notching hat-tricks and Chelmsford 's Phil Benton adding the other . |