Example sentences of "[noun] expect a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby expects a tougher game against bottom-of-the-table Plymouth at Roker Park tonight than the clash with runaway Second Division leaders Ipswich Town .
2 Retailers expect a bigger improvement in June , but their expectations have proved to be over-optimistic in the past two months .
3 If any of these cause people to expect a lower exchange rate , the speculative demand for money will fall : L 2 will shift to the left .
4 Most City forecasters expect a bigger fall in the current-account deficit .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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