Example sentences of "expected [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was also expected that government spending would be cut by 10 per cent , that state companies would be privatized and that sales taxes would be increased .
2 It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful .
3 Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks .
4 The Bank of England had at once consulted the New York banking house of J. P. Morgan , and an answer was expected that Sunday evening .
5 In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived .
6 It was expected that input data would be transcribed to the magnetic wire by a process which did not involve the computer , and similarly for output .
7 Although the advantage of real volume planning , an assured outcome , is lost by the new technique , it was expected that cash planning would mean that government expenditure could more easily be related to expected government revenue .
8 He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight .
9 I 'd expected some Chart Show clothes horses purveying diluted Techno , not an androgynous keyboardist , a commanding dancer and the mad hatter MC who 'd just as soon sing the praises of spliff as he 'd stare out the crowd , bug-eyes in effect .
10 When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent .
11 Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven .
12 Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) .
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