Example sentences of "[noun sg] expect [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Gallery expects huge crowds and strong sales of the Barnes 's first colour catalogue , published by Knopf and printed handsomely by Pizzi . |
| 2 | Viewers have a right to expect serious events , serious issues , serious journalism to be tackled at length in primetime — and that is what the BBC is committed to doing . |
| 3 | The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations . |
| 4 | Investors provide the cash expecting high returns ; to get the money , a firm must be looking at pretty profitable investment opportunities . |
| 5 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
| 6 | Policemen standing yards from where 95 soccer fans died in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster were last night expecting disciplinary charges . |
| 7 | After all , it is common sense to expect low margins in the United States , given the intensity of the competition there . |
| 8 | Another consideration is that the government expects high-technology' industries to grow by 10 per cent a year for the next decade . |
| 9 | However , the government expects local authorities to encourage independent suppliers and make ‘ wider use of service specifications , agency agreements and contracts . ’ |
| 10 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 11 | Our own experiments with people 's ability to juggle credit-cost options give no reason to expect different results here . |
| 12 | Halliday ( 1967 ) has a rather odd-looking set of tones : There is , of course , no particular reason to expect linguistic systems to be tidy and symmetrical , but I find it hard to see why Halliday chose these particular tones . |
| 13 | The committee believes that the public expects external audits to have a role in protecting the interests of shareholders , creditors , pensioners , employees and the public generally by providing them with reassurances that : |
| 14 | The market expects net losses since the opening to be around FF300m ( about £37.5m ) . |