Example sentences of "[noun] expected a [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 | Mr. Gould expected a rich harvest from the appearance of the plain , both as respect [ sic ] quadrupeds and birds , but it was remarkably destitute . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " The tsar and his generals expected an easy campaign marked by heart-warming victories " , which was more or less what they got . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A lot of people expected a little bit more . ’ |
| 8 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Random House expected a modest début for the novel , even deciding against a publicity tour . |