Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Mainly light rain expected this evening the outbreaks should die out around midnight the rest of the night then being cloudy and misty with a little drizzle in places .
2	The group is warning Borders Regional Council to expect vigorous opposition whenever a school is singled out for review .
3	The National Gallery expects huge crowds and strong sales of the Barnes 's first colour catalogue , published by Knopf and printed handsomely by Pizzi .
4	Personally , I have always thought it a great mistake to expect young people to be interested in politics .
5	Perhaps the prime minister expected that Willink would push for a Magdalene man but he did not get a firm line out of him .
6	He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon .
7	At some level of expenditure it presumably becomes inequitable for a disabled person to expect public support for the more expensive domiciliary care if this means depriving someone else of care of any sort .
8	One analyst of these matters has noted that ‘ Stalin had little reason to expect that control of Communist countries would differ markedly from control of Communist parties . ’
9	The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations .
10	After all , it is common sense to expect low margins in the United States , given the intensity of the competition there .
11	Halliday ( 1967 ) has a rather odd-looking set of tones : There is , of course , no particular reason to expect linguistic systems to be tidy and symmetrical , but I find it hard to see why Halliday chose these particular tones .
12	Policemen standing yards from where 95 soccer fans died in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster were last night expecting disciplinary charges .

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