Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In statements of a numerical type , especially , it is always sensible practice to expect the source to be given with each figure . |
| 2 | Informed sources expect the president 's plan to include these main elements : |
| 3 | A staunch friend expected the countenance of the politician to whom he had attached himself , and a failure to actively canvass for a candidate might well he repaid in full by hostility at the next general election . |
| 4 | But diplomats say that with many opposition politicians in jail and the continuing arrests , few Burmese expect the elections to affect the military 's control of the country . |
| 5 | Whatever the intended meaning of those words , there is strong evidence in the New Testament that many of the early Christians expected the Lord 's return at any moment . |
| 6 | There are good reasons to expect the recovery will begin around the middle of this year , although initially it may be slow . |
| 7 | It should not be forgotten , moreover , that Jacobite gentlemen had non-Jacobite relatives , and a favour to the kinsman in difficulties with the law was also a favour to lairds who might have good reason to expect the politician 's help . |
| 8 | One younger Welsh hill farmer used to go up ‘ to help his father in evenings with the few cattle they had ’ , but afterwards at supper the older man expected the grandchildren to keep silent , and if they spoke ‘ he 'd look at us fiercely . ’ |
| 9 | Next year , before privatisation receipts , the Red Book expects the Budget deficit to be £38 billion . |
| 10 | Most physiological psychologists expect the brain to be made up of complementary modules and that lesions will produce double dissociations . |
| 11 | Part of herself , she thought , was killed , a tender , budding part ; the daisy-crowned young girl who would stay behind to haunt the old house , to appear in mirrors where the new owner expected the reflection of his own face , to flash whitely on dark nights out of the prickly core of the apple tree . |
| 12 | Political analysts expect the Labor government to call the poll some time in February , about five weeks before it is held . |
| 13 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 14 | Is it fair to assume that , in this general election year , the right hon. and learned Gentleman expects the review to lead to a cut in the Government 's minimum standards for education facilities , designed to meet the requirements of the national curriculum ? |
| 15 | At that time most people expected the galaxies to be moving around quite randomly , and so expected to find as many blue-shifted spectra as red-shifted ones . |
| 16 | Most people expect the PLA to intervene more openly in the next political crisis , but not necessarily in a unified manner . |
| 17 | Both sides expect the result to be very close . |
| 18 | Speculation about the leadership had persisted in the run up to the elections — in which most commentators expected the Conservatives to perform disastrously . |
| 19 | Most analysts expect the company to record sales of around $1.8 billion for the year to June 30th — a 19-fold increase in seven years . |