Example sentences of "[indef pn] expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end everyone expected a return on love , demanded a rebate of gratitude or respect . |
| 2 | When the settlers got to Virginia , everyone expected the gentlemen of the party to run things , just as in England . |
| 3 | Nearly 30 millimetres of rain was recorded.Flood warnings had been issued … but no-one expected the river to rise so quickly … surging 10 feet above normal levels . |
| 4 | NOBODY EXPECTED The Farm to make anything other than a bad album . |
| 5 | Nobody expected the pupils to be paragons of perfection The standards the principal expected of herself were a different matter entirely . |
| 6 | Party loyalty is by no means an irrelevant factor in explaining and predicting the behaviour of congressmen , but on any issue that they perceive to be contentious within their districts nobody expects a member of Congress to put party before district . |
| 7 | But in Japan only one senior figure is to stand trial ; nobody expects a referendum . |
| 8 | Nobody expects a paragon of virtue but the nurse is meant to be realistic , is meant to have self-knowledge because the ‘ self ’ must be used in the relationship . |
| 9 | Still , nobody expects the Gulf war to resume . |
| 10 | While Robert Henri 's ‘ Skipper Mick ’ was a radiant , tightly painted and very appealing late portrait ( lot 56 est. $80–120,000 ) , none expected the $315,000 ( £196,875 ) Henri portrait record paid by dealer John Surovek . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , most studies expect that such policies will result in a cut in the growth of global GDP ( none expects an increase ) . |
| 12 | ( Surprised , though ; one expected a Swede to be neurotic — but a Scot ! ) |
| 13 | No one expected an attack from there . |
| 14 | No one expected an attack . |
| 15 | The title of this book leads one to expect a contribution to the solution of this problem , but unfortunately these hopes are soon dashed . |
| 16 | One expects a child who mastered four notes in his first week to master four more in the second ; a child who has achieved doggy-paddle with both feet off the bottom to progress logically to breaststroke . |
| 17 | No one expects a practitioner to have time for much theoretical musing or for large empirical studies . |
| 18 | No one expects the editors to commit themselves before receiving a submitted paper , but some indication of the degree of pleasure with which a resubmission would be received would be welcome . |
| 19 | Normally one expects the individual to acquire a structure then practise it until he achieves competence in it in communication ; but the input hypothesis says the opposite is true : in order to acquire structure , we first need to deal with meaning . |
| 20 | One expects the interpreter to influence the content , context and spirit of a message as little as possible in keeping with relaying it meaningfully in the second language . |
| 21 | Stuff of nightmares No one expects the life of a Peruvian gold prospector to be easy , but I doubt if many would expect to die from the bite of a rabid vampire bat . |
| 22 | No one expects the petition to amend the indenture to Barnes ' will to get a court hearing before June . |
| 23 | But anyone expecting a bout a la Ken Russell would have been sorely disappointed . |
| 24 | Anyone expecting a story about inflight cyclic stick failure would have been disappointed , however : the piece concerned a helicopter pilot named Paul who had undergone a sex-change operation and is now known as Paula . |
| 25 | Anyone expecting a baby around the end of April and going to the Sorrento who would like to share the hire of a specialised birthing tank to use in labour ? |