Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 2 | In seemed that the Minister expected little opposition in Parliament , where all MPs were members of TANU . |
| 3 | Wholesalers reported an increase in sales compared with last year , reversing the previous trend , and they also expect strong growth in sales in February . |
| 4 | Expect some caution in the first 15 minutes , until the players are warmed up and have judged the mood and tempo of the game . |
| 5 | Expect cautious underspending in the first six months while trends are analysed ; |
| 6 | ‘ Few shopkeepers expect any upturn in the next few months , ’ said a CBI spokesman . |
| 7 | This reading of silences depends on the argument that the companionate ideal of marriage developed first among the privileged classes , and that in the eighteenth century lower class women could expect little affection in marriage . |
| 8 | Moscow could also expect Iraqi interest in Brezhnev 's initiative since Baghdad had floated a ‘ Pan-Arab Charter ’ early in 1980 , which inter alia had asserted the need to keep the Gulf free from all superpower bases . |
| 9 | In general , if one individual is able to make its future actions plainer than another and if it derives benefit from doing so ( which does not seem implausible in a social context ) , then we should expect evolutionary change in the effectiveness of such signals . |
| 10 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
| 11 | Therefore the chances are , and this is statistical , it 's a statistical chance , in general I can expect any mutation in me to be passed on to half my offspring complete . |
| 12 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
| 13 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
| 14 | There is no particular reason ( or at least none in anything that we have discussed so far ) to expect either side in the arms race to become steadily more successful or less successful than the other . |
| 15 | Civil rights were to include the freedom to join labour unions , the right to strike and the right to expect equal opportunity in employment irrespective of gender , race or creed . |
| 16 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 17 | Mum Fran , who is expecting another baby in January , added : ‘ We have been very fortunate . |
| 18 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 19 | We are , however , expecting healthy growth in home and export markets . |
| 20 | Dr Marvin Goldberg , chief executive , expects continued growth in private health care . |
| 21 | He expects continued growth in the United States but did not elaborate . |