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

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1 Your article , Antenatal Tests , did not mention that mothers expecting a multiple birth are usually advised against having amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling .
2 If parents expect the worst they are quite likely to get it .
3 Several of the teachers shuddered at the mention of this and Endill expected the worst as Mould was led away talking gibberish .
4 Sales have already been made to Abu Dhabi and Egypt and for several other projects in Saudi Arabia , and ESP expects the Middle East to be an increasingly important market for their products and services in the future .
5 However , if people expected a lucid analysis of the ills of contemporary education , together with appropriate and carefully contrived proposals for change , they were disappointed .
6 Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that .
7 In this way the Psalms were read through every twenty-four hours and the Gospels once a week , so that , as Bishop Hacket noticed , ‘ there was no intermission day nor night … they kept sentinel at all hours and seasons to expect the second coming of the Lord Jesus ’ .
8 Middlesbrough have sold their full 4,000 allocation and Wolves expect a 20,000 crowd .
9 Just as investors expect a high return for their capital , we should expect working people to receive a fair return for their labour .
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