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

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1 In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived .
2 It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful .
3 The Bank of England had at once consulted the New York banking house of J. P. Morgan , and an answer was expected that Sunday evening .
4 Although the advantage of real volume planning , an assured outcome , is lost by the new technique , it was expected that cash planning would mean that government expenditure could more easily be related to expected government revenue .
5 Again I was expecting military style spick and span .
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