Example sentences of "expect [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forecast tax charge for the year is thirty four per cent which is below last year 's rate of thirty five and we expect this low rate to continue in the future . |
| 2 | ‘ In summary , we have made substantial progress at the half year and we expect this positive trend to be maintained . |
| 3 | ‘ We have made a strong start to 1993 and we expect this positive trend to continue . |
| 4 | I expect another close game , and I 'm confident we can get back to winning ways . ’ |
| 5 | Grainne had known that when it finally came to it , she would be afraid — for I have never known anyone other than Fergus , and with Fergus it was so natural and so sweet — but she had not expected this sudden rush of tenderness . |
| 6 | He had expected some final pay-off , a terminal settling of accounts for services rendered . |
| 7 | He had expected some sordid den with a big wardrobe , a lot of shoes and a bed laid for business . |
| 8 | I 'd expected some token reluctance , a bit of chair-shuffling and so on . |
| 9 | She had not expected such direct questioning . |
| 10 | Expect much slick guitar , expressive backbeat and … the occasional big surprise . |
| 11 | Close all taps expect one HOT water tap |
| 12 | I had fully expected one locked room , the woman-of-the-glove 's room . |
| 13 | There was some reason for his bewilderment , for Anselm does not seem to have desired or expected any practical result from this consultation except a possible release from his archbishopric . |
| 14 | It seems we can expect yet-another Intel-based desktop operating system to make an appearance this summer . |
| 15 | If ideology reflects economic organization , then one might expect that modern consciousness should contain its universalistic and its particularistic common-places . |
| 16 | Stick with that scenario , how , how would you anticipate , or how would you expect that strategic guidance to be given as to where development should be appropriately located to serve the needs of Greater York , what mechanism is there in place for being |
| 17 | Longer , wider , lower than current Supra , the new car retains aggression of previous car — but do n't expect that rear wing |
| 18 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 19 | We might expect that aggressive fighting would be common in nature , because natural selection will favour the most successful animals in competition , and the strongest animals are probably the most successful in fights . |
| 20 | In a normal year ( that is , not a boom year or a slump year ) , we should expect aggregate transitory income to be zero , so that aggregate measured and permanent incomes would be equal . |
| 21 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
| 22 | Cloud amounts will vary but we can expect some warm sunshine . |
| 23 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
| 24 | He did n't expect this savage hiss of reaction . |
| 25 | Nobody should expect this sleeping dog to lie . |
| 26 | ‘ The reason I have called you both here is to remind you that you are now second-year witches , and I do not expect this ridiculous feud between you two girls to continue . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't expect this extra bit of spare time . ’ |
| 28 | One would expect this large amount of positive feed-back to lead to instability : as soon as the input is strong enough to excite one or two neurons , one would expect these to feed back on to others and initiate an explosive chain reaction . |
| 29 | They did n't expect this old transporter carrier to be fitted with cellular disrupters . ’ |
| 30 | In ( 2 ) , for instance , the idea of unmanly seems to correspond to what caused the person represented as the support of the infinitive to perform the action of treating a woman badly , and the sentence suggests that the speaker did not expect such unmanly behaviour from the person he is addressing . |