Example sentences of "expect the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 2 | Moreover , the new credits entailed a transfer from husbands to wives or , as the issue came to be known , from ‘ wallet to purse ’ , and hence one might have expected the male-dominated TUC to be opposed to them . |
| 3 | But few expect the incumbent Mr Dinkins to say much about slimming his own government . |
| 4 | We expect the final PPG Note to be compatible with existing guidance . |
| 5 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 6 | Stratus fault-tolerant systems , which are re-badged by a host of companies , including IBM Corp as the System/88 , and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA as CPS , expects the various OEM arrangements it has to carry on through into its HP era . |