Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven out of 10 expect Labour to be the biggest party and on average they predict the FT-SE 100 index will be almost 80 points lower than last night 's close of 2393.2 if Neil Kinnock is in Downing Street tomorrow . |
| 2 | Hence the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act of 1970 expects local authorities to provide a range and scale of services that in practice they rarely can . |
| 3 | However , City economists expect Britain 's trade deficit to improve , but with few expecting next year 's trade gap to be better than the £15 billion figure forecast by Mr Major in his autumn statement . |
| 4 | Women born in 1945–59 expected 2.27 children ; women born in 1960–4 expect 2.33 on average . |
| 5 | Adjournment is discretional , and whilst this must , of course , be exercised judicially , courts in general expect good reason to be shown before an adjournment will be granted , and will , in particular , consider if the opponent to an application will be prejudiced . |
| 6 | Women born in 1945–59 expected 2.27 children ; women born in 1960–4 expect 2.33 on average . |
| 7 | Not until the appearance in United Nations World , dated May 1951 , of an article by Professor Hans Thirring , entitled ‘ Is Peron 's A-bomb a swindle ? ’ , was Richter spurred to put pen to paper But his rejoinder , ‘ Argentina has no atom bomb ’ in the July issue of that journal , was a disappointment to those expecting some scientific enlightenment . |