Example sentences of "expected [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no classical explanation for the slowing down ; however , the rate of energy loss is exactly that expected via gravitational radiation . |
| 2 | It must have seemed utterly reasonable to extend the golden rule of the Sermon on the Mount to animals so that animals deserved the same treatment which the human expected from other humans . |
| 3 | Was that not what he expected from Asian shopkeepers , and did that justify breaking their bones ? |
| 4 | But even if political authorities were clear about what they expected from public enterprises , political control would remain problematic . |
| 5 | Percentage measures of performance should therefore be compared to that expected from random selection . |
| 6 | He expected in normal years a clear trading profit of £400 . |
| 7 | Some of the most exacting university degrees , such as those in the biological and physical sciences demand a level of work load from the conscientious student which is greater than that expected in most occupations . |
| 8 | Willie expected at any moment to see the tips of two red horns slowly emerging from under his hair , but they did n't . |
| 9 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 10 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |