Example sentences of "expected [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had not expected the Prime Minister to look at her watch and say , ‘ I see it 's only eleven , so we have half an hour in hand . |
| 2 | They had expected the Prime Minister to appoint a third woman to his Cabinet . |
| 3 | It was now Friday , and the first volunteers were expected the following day ! |
| 4 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The news of her latest pregnancy was broken in November , and it is expected the new baby will make a public debut on her Good Morning BBC1 programme , perhaps next week . |
| 6 | They rarely had visitors , and if ever anyone was expected the front drawing room in its pale greens and pinks with damp spots over the wall could be aired and dusted . |
| 7 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
| 8 | Sabine had expected the civil ceremony conducted by the mayor to be a formal , rather bureaucratic business , but it was very much a family affair , celebrated among neighbours who had known the bride and groom since birth . |
| 9 | As might be expected the temporary workforce was disproportionately concentrated in the service sector , in particular in the distribution , hotels and catering industries and in " other " services , both public and private ( in Britain this includes public administration ) . |
| 10 | Colin insists that they had expected the ensuing fuss . |
| 11 | As may be expected the ohmic voltage drop in the wire will be equal to the induced voltage . |
| 12 | Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same . |
| 13 | An announcement , perhaps blessed by Microsoft , is expected the last week in January . |
| 14 | He had n't expected the red carpet to be unrolled for him , but he had thought that at last he would be at work , setting up his meetings , on the move . |
| 15 | Harold Hobson , the chairman of the Central Electricity Board ( who had expected the top job in the new organisation himself ) , pointedly refused to work as Citrine 's deputy and resigned from the CEB prematurely . |
| 16 | The concept of education vouchers fits remarkably well into the Tory programme of privatisation' of the social services and one might have expected the Conservative Party to move quickly towards a practical scheme of education vouchers … |
| 17 | For the potential risks condition , analysis of variance with two within-subjects factors shows that there is once again a significant main effect of junction risk , F(1,9)=43.01 , p<0.01 , as would be expected the high risk junctions tended to have more potential risks . |
| 18 | She had expected no other outcome , even if he had . |
| 19 | ‘ I had expected no other reply . |
| 20 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The railway buildings at the hill stations , on the other hand , only expected a European clientele ( together with servants ) and were organized accordingly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Having expected a leisurely discussion , Luce was surprised by the brevity of this first meeting . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls . |