Example sentences of "[verb] expect [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this is good news for millions of borrowers and mortgage holders , it is not such a rosy picture for those people who have come to expect a healthy return from their savings accounts . |
| 2 | However , most Japanese businessmen acquainted with foreigners have come to expect a certain variety within reasonable limits in the dress of foreign businessmen . |
| 3 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |
| 4 | It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it . |
| 5 | United 's defence stopped expecting an offside flag but Alexei Mikhailichenko was allowed to continue and put Rangers ahead . |
| 6 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
| 7 | He 'd expected a clandestine rendezvous — curtained windows , locked doors — not a gypsy encampment . |
| 8 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 9 | ‘ I seem to expect the whole happiness and sweetness to come from you ’ , he wrote as he warned Helen that she should find a real need for patience with him . |
| 10 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 11 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 12 | One might have expected a sadistic Nightmare On Elm Street lyric to emerge from such interests , but instead he wrote the wonderfully moving ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ and later made a point of condemning Myra Hindley . |
| 13 | He could have expected a weekly salary approaching £10,000 , plus all the other expensive trimmings , if he had become Britain 's most expensive ever midfield player . |
| 14 | My father would have expected an abject apology from me , I assure you , before he condescended to write . ’ |
| 15 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
| 16 | Moreover , the new credits entailed a transfer from husbands to wives or , as the issue came to be known , from ‘ wallet to purse ’ , and hence one might have expected the male-dominated TUC to be opposed to them . |
| 17 | One might have expected the intense difficulties confronting British film producers to stimulate discussion ; instead it seems to have narrowed their perspective . |
| 18 | The concept of education vouchers fits remarkably well into the Tory programme of privatisation' of the social services and one might have expected the Conservative Party to move quickly towards a practical scheme of education vouchers … |
| 19 | Having expected a leisurely discussion , Luce was surprised by the brevity of this first meeting . |
| 20 | The problem is that we as a nation continue to expect a clinical quart out of an economic pint . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ If he does n't select and stalk his victim , and obviously he did n't in the last three cases , he 'd normally have to expect a long wait . |
| 22 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 23 | Admittedly , the theology of the end of days is vague enough : Daniel does not seem to expect a universal resurrection of the dead . |
| 24 | There are signs that users may come to expect a reasonable tolerance of miskeyings from any interactive computer system . |
| 25 | She had expected no other outcome , even if he had . |
| 26 | ‘ I had expected no other reply . |
| 27 | The first excursion of the new government in foreign affairs was a bitter disappointment to those who had expected a real change in American policy abroad . |
| 28 | British diplomats , who had been in contact with the Chinese foreign ministry for weeks trying to get them to resume talks , had expected a stormy ride yesterday . |
| 29 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |
| 30 | Leech , who had expected a generous-minded rival , was amazed at Burton 's blunt declaration that if he could not make the acting game pay well and soon , he would be off . |