Example sentences of "expect at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How does this student 's work measure up to what teachers expect at this stage ? |
| 2 | And , as is often the case in the media , literary texts have the habit of not turning out to mean what might be expected at first sight . |
| 3 | Any given rise in unemployment in the winter months , therefore , can only be shown to be significant if it can be demonstrated that the rise is over and above that which is normally expected at that time of year . |
| 4 | Speedy success was essential , since records gathered over the previous 80 years showed that at best only three weeks of rain-free weather could be expected at that time of the year . |
| 5 | Here Miss Wharton , as was her custom each Wednesday and Friday , would weed out the dead flowers from the vase in front of the statue of the Virgin , scrape the wax and candle stubs from the brass holders , dust the two rows of chairs in the Lady Chapel , which would be adequate for the small congregation expected at that morning 's early Mass , and make everything ready for the arrival at nine twenty of Father Barnes . |
| 6 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |
| 7 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |
| 8 | There are only minor things erm , Chris suggested changes to the procedures , just tidying them up as we might have expected at this stage really erm . |
| 9 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 10 | It was after five-thirty on a Friday night , and Tom was expected at any minute . |
| 11 | In fact , however , new disappointments followed on Hitler 's confident promises : the bombing , almost unimpeded by German defences , intensified ; the situation on the eastern Front worsened almost by the day ; and in the west an invasion was expected at any time . |
| 12 | Coutts had been informed that a cheque for $6m was expected at any moment from MGM films in America — payment for the distribution rights of Electric Dreams . |
| 13 | Plugging in a 4-string bass the tone is generally tight , controlled and correct , much as you would expect at this price . |
| 14 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 15 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 16 | And , full expecting at any time perhaps to hear the er siren , sort of police car , but there was n't any . |
| 17 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |
| 18 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 19 | He made the stairs in one breathless rush , expecting at any moment another , more accurate shot . |
| 20 | All we are expecting at this stage is modest growth in this half year . |
| 21 | Willie expected at any moment to see the tips of two red horns slowly emerging from under his hair , but they did n't . |
| 22 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 23 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |