Example sentences of "[noun] expect a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the general election , when many experts expected a Labour victory followed by a rise in base rates , there were several enticing bonds to go for . |
| 2 | Investing institutions expect a net cash inflow of £30 billion-40 billion this year . |
| 3 | When Zeppelin told PHIL KING their next game was on ice , the rotund reviewer expected a long delay ! |
| 4 | The department expects a general location for the new settlement to be included in the approved plan . |
| 5 | Caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby expects a tougher game against bottom-of-the-table Plymouth at Roker Park tonight than the clash with runaway Second Division leaders Ipswich Town . |
| 6 | Mr. Gould expected a rich harvest from the appearance of the plain , both as respect [ sic ] quadrupeds and birds , but it was remarkably destitute . |
| 7 | Ferry lines expect a huge rush of passengers taking advantage of the new freedom . |
| 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 | Hence the Council expects a significant proportion of staff involved in teaching of courses leading to its awards to be engaged in research ; moreover , colleges are expected to provide a high standard of specialized accommodation , library provision , academic , technical and administrative staff and good working conditions generally . |
| 10 | BAT Industries was unsettled by news that rival Philip Morris expected a 40 per cent fall in tobacco profits and planned price cuts . |
| 11 | Retailers expect a bigger improvement in June , but their expectations have proved to be over-optimistic in the past two months . |
| 12 | Even homeless people have a right to expect a reasonable standard of accomodation . |
| 13 | The level of tuition fees charged to students gives them the right to expect a professional standard of service , particularly with regard to test-marking ; the Education Service is judged , to a considerable extent , by that criterion . |
| 14 | Not the time or the place to expect a violent gang attack on a pensioner . |
| 15 | Nor is Mr Marshall expecting a Hollywood-style transformation of the club 's fortunes on the field . |
| 16 | House broker County NatWest expects a 36 p.c. rise to £14.4m pre-tax for 1991 and sees £19.3m as attainable this year . |
| 17 | Leading scorer Paul Wilkinson expects a tough match against his first professional club . |
| 18 | A cynical nihilist , Andrei expected a sticky end ( if only at the hands of his master and mistress ) and wanted to live well before it came . |
| 19 | ‘ Our customers expect a high level of knowledge . |
| 20 | Muller and his team-mates expect a hard four-match tour and welcome the challenge . |
| 21 | Just as investors expect a high return for their capital , we should expect working people to receive a fair return for their labour . |
| 22 | ‘ Export prospects look brighter with smaller firms expecting a slight increase in orders in the next four months . |
| 23 | Mary Ingham , also from Leeds , said she had booked to see Swan Lake expecting a traditional production . |
| 24 | However , if people expected a lucid analysis of the ills of contemporary education , together with appropriate and carefully contrived proposals for change , they were disappointed . |
| 25 | A lot of people expected a little bit more . ’ |
| 26 | If any of these cause people to expect a lower exchange rate , the speculative demand for money will fall : L 2 will shift to the left . |
| 27 | Reception arrangements often went badly : a rural area expecting a few dozen docile grammar-school girls could find itself , at ten o'clock in the evening , invaded by a hundred resentful East End mothers with exhausted and fretful babies . |
| 28 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 29 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 30 | Yesterday the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland put its pennyworth in when Alex Brown , the milk committee convener , said the union expected a reasoned decision from the secretary of state . |