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

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1 BCCI expected further losses for 1990 of around $450 million , and was reportedly planning a radical rationalization when its assets were seized .
2 It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated .
3 During what I call the period of uneasy peace , 1983–84 , Mr Heinz expected all options to be examined and costed in detail .
4 Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased .
5 Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats .
6 Because the emphasis was on family placements , residential workers and families expected other plans to be made .
7 Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ .
8 The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence .
9 And last night top U.S. military commander General Colin Powell said he expected Western jets to be enforcing the zone within two weeks .
10 Many commentators expected significant defections from the LDP to the PPP following Aquino 's endorsement of Ramos .
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