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 . |