Example sentences of "[noun] expect a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Your article , Antenatal Tests , did not mention that mothers expecting a multiple birth are usually advised against having amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling . |
| 32 | The union expects a white paper to propose that association activities be split , with all students having automatic access only to publicly-funded core services . |
| 33 | The union expects a white paper to propose that association activities be split , with all students having automatic access only to publicly-funded core services . |
| 34 | British Rail expects a marked increase in Railfreight services to and from the Continent after the Tunnel opens and extensive alterations to the Willesden/Wembley Freight Complex are underway to marshal trains from the South East and other parts of the Country . |
| 35 | The board expects a similar percentage increase in next year 's interim dividend from 6.75p to 7p . |
| 36 | The finance ministry expects a federal budget deficit this year of nearly DM70 billion , about 60% more than it forecast in November . |
| 37 | MOST voters expect a hung Parliament after Thursday but half are unhappy about the idea , according to Gallup 's final pre-election survey for The Sunday Telegraph . |
| 38 | Most City forecasters expect a bigger fall in the current-account deficit . |
| 39 | Several economists in the City expect a bigger fall , to perhaps 3–4% by mid-1991 , as interest rates start to fall , and the poll tax , the rise in excise duties and the mortgage-rate increase drop out of the figures . |
| 40 | In that case , there is no reason to expect a general form of explanation linking our cognitive faculties to the truth , explaining the reliability of our natural abductive sense . |
| 41 | Bush had every reason to expect an easy victory , the ultimate Christmas gift to an adoring American public , who have granted him a record approval rating in the opinion polls . |
| 42 | In other words , considerations of generalization decrement give reason to expect an overshadowing effect in flavour-aversion experiments but not in the conditioned suppression experiments . |
| 43 | James turned up at the docks expecting a luxury liner , only to find a cargo ship and a deck-hand 's job waiting for him . |
| 44 | It is also possible that late nineteenth and early twentieth-century working class women expected a greater degree of drunkenness and violence on the part of husbands than would be tolerated today . |
| 45 | Could a member of the public expect a professional response , or one based on superstition and prejudice ? |
| 46 | Middlesbrough have sold their full 4,000 allocation and Wolves expect a 20,000 crowd . |
| 47 | In a normal year , he says , estate agents expect a quiet start , followed by a good spring and autumn , a quiet summer and a poor winter . |
| 48 | Frankly , it 's a tall order to expect a major character to have depth when played by a series of unknown kids . |
| 49 | The company expects a steady flow of orders follow ing recent decisions by the West German government to participate in various space efforts and several European military-aircraft projects . |
| 50 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
| 51 | Random House expected a modest début for the novel , even deciding against a publicity tour . |
| 52 | Novell Inc is getting together with Oracle Corp on June 15 to announce ‘ a major joint initiative relating to products and strategies for Enterprise Network Computing ’ : analysts expect a strategic move in response to Microsoft Corp working closely with Sybase Inc on Windows NT , but the agreement is not thought to involve equity stakes . |
| 53 | Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke alerted Tory MPs to expect a public backlash when he went on TV to ram home the message that ‘ painful ’ spending decisions had to be accepted by the country . |
| 54 | Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke alerted Tory MPs to expect a public backlash when he went on TV to ram home the message that ‘ painful ’ spending decisions had to be accepted by the country . |
| 55 | The Commission nevertheless insists there are no grounds to expect a significant impact on Community markets . |
| 56 | Extending this principle a little further , each one of these types expects a certain reaction from their chosen victim — perhaps terror , disgust , humiliation or just stunned silence . |
| 57 | Given what seems to be an insatiable demand — with simultaneous booms in office and factory automation , fuelled by the development of new Japanese language processing systems — Mizuno expects a steady stream of new entrants into the software service business during the coming five years . |
| 58 | UI expects a fully-converged ABI to result over time , which will eventually include some form of requirement for a common development environment . |
| 59 | After a long ( 20-year ) gilt in March and a short ( five-year ) one in April , the market expects a medium-term issue in May . |