Example sentences of "[noun pl] expect the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those with children at RC schools expected the highest moral standards . |
| 2 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 3 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |
| 4 | By the simple device of warning his readers to expect the worst , de Pomiane gets his message across . |
| 5 | Analyst Michael Saunders of Salomon Brothers expects the next year 's figure to reach £50 billion . |
| 6 | If parents expect the worst they are quite likely to get it . |
| 7 | TP watchers expect the new release to include greater interoperability features , such as links with IBM Corp 's CICS/6000 transaction processing environment which is based upon Transarc Corp 's Encina TP technology . |
| 8 | Because the polling system is new and complex , the results will not be known for several days , but most observers expect the local party 's candidates to come in far behind the Popular Front and other unofficial groups . |
| 9 | Three out of four independent economic forecasting bodies expected the Scottish economy to perform better than the UK economy both last year and this year . |
| 10 | The bishops expected the hallowed Authorized Version to maintain its mastery because it was sanctified in everyone 's affections and moral sentiments . |
| 11 | Would not others from needy backgrounds expect the same ? |
| 12 | In this way the Psalms were read through every twenty-four hours and the Gospels once a week , so that , as Bishop Hacket noticed , ‘ there was no intermission day nor night … they kept sentinel at all hours and seasons to expect the second coming of the Lord Jesus ’ . |
| 13 | The issue was of far greater importance to Japan than to Russia , yet the Tsar and most of his ministers expected the Japanese to be easily intimidated . |
| 14 | Soviet spokesmen expected the Third World states to form a strong constituency of support for Brezhnev 's plan and they chose their arguments accordingly . |
| 15 | Ministers expect the current public spending round to be the toughest for many years as the Government seeks to maintain its anti-inflation policy outside the ERM disciplines . |
| 16 | Although new firms continue to enter the market , most commentators expect the total number of GEMMs to decline further . |
| 17 | Apart from these racial insults , the atmosphere was genial , and all of us had seen enough of our boys to expect the best . |
| 18 | Moreover , the court should not approach decisions and reasons given by committees of laymen expecting the same accuracy in the use of language which a lawyer might be expected to adopt . |
| 19 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |