Example sentences of "expect to find [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 2 | Many potential purchasers expect to find fitted wardrobes in bedrooms these days . |
| 3 | With the FLN victory of 1962 — two years after Camus 's death — there was an immediate exodus of French Algerians and now , as I walk the streets , it seems ridiculous to have expected to find any trace of Camus 's Algiers — like an American travelling to England in the hope of finding Dickens 's London . |
| 4 | The speeches in the House of Lords pointed out that one would have expected to find this section in a Part of the Act dealing with company charges rather than in that dealing with debentures , and accepted that the mortgage would not be a ‘ debenture , ’ for the purposes of some of the other sections . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 6 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
| 7 | Namely , wherever there is a difference in form , they should expect to find some difference in meaning . |
| 8 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
| 9 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 10 | However , in a semi-strong efficient market as the International Stock Exchange in London we should not expect to find any evidence for P/E ratio being a reliable predictor of returns or volatility of returns . |
| 11 | What one hears said by others does not always match up with our own experience , and we can no longer look round expecting to find clear-cut models of behaviour . |
| 12 | When a new government takes office and opens the Defence books , it expects to find ample room for change and improvement . |