Example sentences of "[noun pl] expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But theatre-goers expecting a regulation production of Measure for Measure at Chester 's Gateway Theatre will be in for a surprise this is in modern dress . |
| 2 | SEVERAL areas expecting a share of a £100 million EC aid package may be excluded because of what MPs claim is a bureaucratic muddle , the Government conceded yesterday . |
| 3 | Industry observers expected a deal only after the result of the general election was known . |
| 4 | Not only did the mourners expect a meal but there was also the priest 's fee , plus an appropriate ‘ donation ’ to church funds . |
| 5 | It may be early days to expect a consensus to emerge less than two weeks after the group was established , and it is now too late to forge a common front to influence the Budget . |
| 6 | To illustrate the combination of speculative and portfolio adjustment effects that are embodied in relative returns it is useful to analyse the changes that would arise if wealth and turnover are held constant and investors expect a rise of 1% in the relative return on UK investments in both the current and following quarters due to an expected exchange rate appreciation . |
| 7 | When the European trade bar riers are lifted on January 1 French store owners expect an army of Brits to land — eager to snap up bargain-basement alcohol and cigarettes and ensure the happiest of New Years . |
| 8 | Time and empathy are often lacking in the doctor-patient encounter ; high-tech medicine sometimes turns patients into numbers labelled with a diagnosis ; and since many diseases have become curable , some patients expect a cure for all ailments . |
| 9 | Ye , I feel actually women go , or people in general , go to the doctors expecting a tablet , a prescription , and are very disappointed if they do n't get one . |
| 10 | Many rabbis expected a Messiah after the destruction of the Second Temple , and the greatest of them , Rabbi Akiva , found his Messiah in Bar Kochba under Hadrian , though it is very doubtful whether Bar Kochba himself even claimed Messianic status . |
| 11 | North of the Border , a balance between those architects expecting a rise and those expecting a fall in workloads in the next six months stands at a dismal minus 19 per cent . |
| 12 | Commentators expected an upturn in the second half of 1990 , but the economy proved highly susceptible to the new circumstances imposed by the Gulf crisis . |
| 13 | In Finland , the Bolsheviks expected a workers ’ revolution but in the short term recognized the independent bourgeois republic . |
| 14 | It could do with a bit of script-editing but satellite sceptics expecting a botch-job held together by sticky-backed plastic will be pleasantly surprised . |
| 15 | He had dropped into a thick Geordie twang and , after laughing , he looked up and down the platform now , saying , ‘ We must be the only ones expecting a passenger . ’ |
| 16 | The commission has found that councils expect a tax collection level of 94 per cent . |