Example sentences of "expect to find a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 2 | We expect to find a guilty incident or relationship because he writes continually of guilt ; we expect to find sin because he speaks of atonement and expiation . |
| 3 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 5 | Although Mr Patten said it was too early to discuss his political future , the Tories are now expected to find a safe seat in which the sitting member can be persuaded to make way for his early return to Westminster . |
| 6 | The successful diplomate will thus expect to find a wide range of career and employment opportunities , especially in the industrial/commercial sector . |
| 7 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 8 | A 400-year-old school for boys in Shrewsbury is hardly the place you might expect to find a true example of hi-tech living . |
| 9 | Students may then be asked in what physical form and in what situation they would expect to find a given piece of discourse . |
| 10 | This practice was only varied if there was some known defect in the title , and if that was so , one could expect to find a special condition on the contract , indicating that the buyer would take the title as it stood , and would not raise requisitions after contracts were exchanged . |
| 11 | Any European fan coming to Brazil and expecting to find a national league and knockout cup as in his own country is likely to be bewildered by a combination of 27 regional competitions , a nationwide cup , a national championship , pre-season tournaments and three South American club competitions . |