Example sentences of "[noun] expected [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the general election , when many experts expected a Labour victory followed by a rise in base rates , there were several enticing bonds to go for . |
| 2 | When Zeppelin told PHIL KING their next game was on ice , the rotund reviewer expected a long delay ! |
| 3 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 4 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 5 | Perhaps Edward expected no other outcome , and indeed preparations for another campaign in France were well in hand when the treaty was concluded . |
| 6 | Mr. Gould expected a rich harvest from the appearance of the plain , both as respect [ sic ] quadrupeds and birds , but it was remarkably destitute . |
| 7 | Mr Willasey expected the latest document to last through most of the 1990s , but it would be reviewed subject to any changes in fashion trends . |
| 8 | A cynical nihilist , Andrei expected a sticky end ( if only at the hands of his master and mistress ) and wanted to live well before it came . |
| 9 | Three out of four independent economic forecasting bodies expected the Scottish economy to perform better than the UK economy both last year and this year . |
| 10 | " The tsar and his generals expected an easy campaign marked by heart-warming victories " , which was more or less what they got . |
| 11 | However , if people expected a lucid analysis of the ills of contemporary education , together with appropriate and carefully contrived proposals for change , they were disappointed . |
| 12 | A lot of people expected a little bit more . ’ |
| 13 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 14 | The government expected the Soviet Union to remain Czechoslovakia 's most important trading partner . |
| 15 | Their vision expected the civil service ‘ to know more and do less than any other body in public life . |
| 16 | Yesterday the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland put its pennyworth in when Alex Brown , the milk committee convener , said the union expected a reasoned decision from the secretary of state . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Soviet spokesmen expected the Third World states to form a strong constituency of support for Brezhnev 's plan and they chose their arguments accordingly . |
| 19 | Random House expected a modest début for the novel , even deciding against a publicity tour . |
| 20 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 21 | After that the Home Office expected no further increases . |