Example sentences of "[verb] expect a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | United 's defence stopped expecting an offside flag but Alexei Mikhailichenko was allowed to continue and put Rangers ahead . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was told to expect a five hour delay … in the event she endured a nine hour wait … |
| 7 | After the majestic setting of Old Trafford , Middlesbrough could not have expected a greater contrast than Roots Hall . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 11 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
| 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 | Having expected a leisurely discussion , Luce was surprised by the brevity of this first meeting . |
| 16 | The problem is that we as a nation continue to expect a clinical quart out of an economic pint . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 19 | Admittedly , the theology of the end of days is vague enough : Daniel does not seem to expect a universal resurrection of the dead . |
| 20 | There are signs that users may come to expect a reasonable tolerance of miskeyings from any interactive computer system . |
| 21 | Others , who unlike the Combined Operations staff , had expected a second front in Europe that summer , saw what forces would be needed to invade Europe . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls . |
| 25 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The fall in seasonally adjusted unemployment of 22,000 last month was even more of a surprise , at a time when forecasters had expected a further rise of 35,000 . |
| 28 | Neither Marshal Joffre , General Foch ( his deputy in the north ) nor Sir John' French had expected a German attack in Flanders . |
| 29 | Growers here had expected a bumper season . |
| 30 | For some reason I had expected a foreign accent ; but I could place this exactly . |