Example sentences of "expected [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The cooperativity between α-truncated polymerases and CRP is lost at the lac promoter , consequently it was expected that binding of CRP at its target in the -60 region would not lead to the occupancy of lac P1 by the mutant enzymes .
2 Pavlov ( 1927 ) expressed the view that the OR evoked by a novel stimulus constituted an ‘ obstacle ’ to conditioning ; and indeed , if conditioning is seen as a process in which the OR comes to be replaced by the CR , it might be expected that pre-exposure to the CS would facilitate this process .
3 It was expected that elimination of the anticipated need to recruit an additional personnel clerk would result in sufficient cost reductions to at least partially cost justify the system .
4 It was humiliating , and she had not expected that kind of reaction from him .
5 It is expected that adoption of each of these programmes will be delayed and this in turn will affect dates for calls for proposals , publicity events , etc , although we can not tell at the moment how long the delay will last and the consequences it may have .
6 It was expected that measurement of surface heat radiation would provide clues to the planet 's chemical composition and the reasons behind the planet 's " greenhouse effect " .
7 Marguerite 's voice was warm when Jenna had expected another burst of either anger or distress .
8 The tension drifted from Blufton 's eyes , as if he had expected another challenge to his veracity .
9 Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries .
10 Other new production is expected this year from the Draugen field in Norwegian waters , the Pagerungan gas find in Indonesia and Point McIntyre in Alaska .
11 A DECISION is expected this week on which certificate to give Jurassic Park the Steven Spielberg dinosaur epic Britain 's children are already clamouring to see .
12 AN announcement is expected this week on the NewZealand-based company Fortex Group Ltd 's plans to establish a new lamb processing plant in the United Kingdom .
13 DETAILS are expected this week of a rescue package for the Gateway supermarkets group after bankers were warned it was on the verge of collapse .
14 Slightly more cheerful results are expected this week from another construction group , Amec .
15 Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years .
16 He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour .
17 Fighting back tears , his 50-year-old widow Sam said : ‘ He gave his life to British Airways and could have expected some support from them .
18 They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received .
19 The situation was complicated by the fact that a further United Kingdom election was expected some time during the autumn .
20 An official bulletin was expected some time after the consultation .
21 Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one !
22 If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam .
23 There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom .
24 ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better .
25 Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay .
26 Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay .
27 ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy .
28 It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him .
29 Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh .
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