Example sentences of "[noun pl] expected the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a time when its readers expected the novel to inform or to instruct , to contribute to the definition of a direction for society . |
| 2 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 3 | Listeners expected the radio to be relevant to problems as they saw them . |
| 4 | Whatever the intended meaning of those words , there is strong evidence in the New Testament that many of the early Christians expected the Lord 's return at any moment . |
| 5 | None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above . |
| 6 | And having voted for party candidates , the electors expected the members returned to Parliament to support the program offered by their leaders at the election . |
| 7 | It meant that the Greeks expected the Jews not to translate their holy books , but to produce an account of themselves according to the current methods and categories of ethnography . |
| 8 | Speculation about the leadership had persisted in the run up to the elections — in which most commentators expected the Conservatives to perform disastrously . |
| 9 | Analysts expected the imposition of this new ban to have a serious impact on Jordan 's debt-ridden farmers . |