Example sentences of "expect a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Expect a lively bourse for the rest of 1992 . |
| 32 | We expect a further reduction in 1993 . |
| 33 | Over the next twelve months we expect a further increase in those needing our Home Care service to enable them to live and die at home . |
| 34 | There should then be no plateaux in the Hall voltage because as more electrons are added to an unfilled Landau level we expect a smooth decrease of the Hall voltage . |
| 35 | I have always thought that league results are what matter most to Motherwell and I expect a harder game than were given that day . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 37 | You expect a little bit of jostling do n't you when there 's a crowd seen in the penalty box . |
| 38 | J. B. S. Haldane argued in 1938 , ‘ We may , I think , if the existing differences in fertility of social class continue , expect a slow decline of perhaps 1 or 2 per cent per generation in the mean intelligence quotient of the country ’ . |
| 39 | MOST voters expect a hung Parliament after Thursday but half are unhappy about the idea , according to Gallup 's final pre-election survey for The Sunday Telegraph . |
| 40 | You expect a whole speech of explanation . |
| 41 | The Japanese expect a third generation about 1990 ; these will be ‘ learning robots ’ capable of self-programming and they will also be able to move around . |
| 42 | Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do . |
| 43 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |
| 44 | Find one in good condition and it will give endless pleasure but , being an old design , expect a fair amount of maintenance . |
| 45 | Ferry lines expect a huge rush of passengers taking advantage of the new freedom . |
| 46 | In the first month of its operation it received 280 inquiries ; but commenting on this figure , a spokesman said : ‘ We expect a dramatic increase in inquiries once head teachers come back from holiday and examine the information we have sent them ’ . |
| 47 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |
| 48 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 49 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
| 50 | The railway buildings at the hill stations , on the other hand , only expected a European clientele ( together with servants ) and were organized accordingly . |
| 51 | The first excursion of the new government in foreign affairs was a bitter disappointment to those who had expected a real change in American policy abroad . |
| 52 | Leech , who had expected a generous-minded rival , was amazed at Burton 's blunt declaration that if he could not make the acting game pay well and soon , he would be off . |
| 53 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 54 | Having expected a leisurely discussion , Luce was surprised by the brevity of this first meeting . |
| 55 | British diplomats , who had been in contact with the Chinese foreign ministry for weeks trying to get them to resume talks , had expected a stormy ride yesterday . |
| 56 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 57 | I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls . |
| 58 | Others , who unlike the Combined Operations staff , had expected a second front in Europe that summer , saw what forces would be needed to invade Europe . |
| 59 | After the majestic setting of Old Trafford , Middlesbrough could not have expected a greater contrast than Roots Hall . |
| 60 | Whatever reaction Doyle had expected , he had n't expected a sneering laugh . |