Example sentences of "expected the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Moreover , the new credits entailed a transfer from husbands to wives or , as the issue came to be known , from ‘ wallet to purse ’ , and hence one might have expected the male-dominated TUC to be opposed to them . |
| 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 | One might have expected the intense difficulties confronting British film producers to stimulate discussion ; instead it seems to have narrowed their perspective . |
| 11 | Colin insists that they had expected the ensuing fuss . |
| 12 | She had expected the royal apartments to be brimming with activity . |
| 13 | As may be expected the ohmic voltage drop in the wire will be equal to the induced voltage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |