Example sentences of "[pron] [be] expect [adj] of " in BNC.
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1 | If you are expecting thousands of entries the format will need to be such that it is easy to eliminate incorrect entries . |
2 | • With Valentine 's day so near to the closing date , we were expecting hundreds of soppy cards , bouquets of flowers , bottles of champagne and heart-shaped chocolates to come flooding into the office — there must have been a postal strike . |
3 | We were expecting most of the main opposition leaders to have been imprisoned , ’ Mann stated the obvious . |
4 | Although the company has a plant in London , it is expected some of the work will go to the company 's French factories . |
5 | It is expected some of the Manual will be suitable to be offered to the Contracts and Purchasing Working Group charged with producing their own procedures document for BS5750 . |