Example sentences of "expect [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia was not sure what she expected after that . |
| 2 | A marked contrast in behaviour would be expected during continental collision between the very thick crust of the Andes , where relatively rapid subduction has occurred throughout at least the Cenozoic , and the Alpine region where the closure of the ocean separating North Africa and southern Europe has been more gradual . |
| 3 | In 1992 the business grew 16 per cent on the previous year and similar growth is expected during 1993 . |
| 4 | Apart from North Sea projects on the drawing board , progress is expected during 1993 towards the development of the huge Mars discovery it shares with Shell in the Gulf of Mexico and the oil reserves it has established by pioneering exploration work in Colombia . |
| 5 | Sixteen cases were expected during 1979-83 but 31 actually occurred . |
| 6 | Accountants might therefore pay more attention to indicating the types of profiles to be expected for each category of SBU ; clearly , unthinking comparisons between them with respect to their financial performance should be avoided . |
| 7 | For a sample with different atoms the result is simply a superposition of those expected for each of the constituent atoms . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 9 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 10 | Road works : Serious traffic delays are expected for four weeks while British Gas carries out excavations of the A59 at Rice Lane , near Walton Hospital , Liverpool . |
| 11 | DELAYS are expected for four weeks on the northbound carriageway of the M74 in Lanarkshire between junctions 7 , for Larkhall , and 6 , Motherwell . |
| 12 | It provided for a record deficit of 185,340,000 million forint ( US$2,260 million ) , representing just under 6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and slightly less than the deficit expected for 1992 . |
| 13 | " Sacrifices could be demanded in the name of democracy which could not be expected for mere patriotism for the social order as it was . " |
| 14 | Even in this strict condition , signers performed better than would be expected for two unrelated spoken languages . |
| 15 | Commercial versions are not expected for 18 months . |
| 16 | This is in the range expected for similar-sized macromolecular complexes , but less than the 2,900 2 observed for the trp repressor-operator complex . |
| 17 | Table 6.8 shows the percentage of accesses to synonyms to be expected for various bucket sizes , in the 80/20 case . |
| 18 | In table VII we compared the observed numbers of cases with those expected for lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , for all other cancers , and for all cancers combined separately for 1963–83 and 1984–90 . |
| 19 | When the equivalence principle is applied to photons they are predicted to undergo a gravitational red shift when they leave a star , whilst a deflection is expected for light passing near to a massive body . |
| 20 | No results , however , are expected for some time ; and in any case , Whitehall expenditure reviews are notorious for failing to deliver anything of significance . |
| 21 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 22 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 23 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 24 | The level of performance expected for these remaining primary functions is : |
| 25 | The percentage of synonyms to be expected for any given case , assuming that record allocation to addresses is entirely random and that synonyms are only stored after all home records , is as follows : |
| 26 | Unfortunately life is never simple — the Stores Platoon confirms that they have no Challenger engines in stock and that the next one is not expected for three or four days ; improvisation will obviously be needed if the Blues and Royals are to have all their tanks working . |
| 27 | Then , towards the end of August , Eachuinn Odhar got the message he 'd not expected for another month . |
| 28 | A first flight is not expected for another year . |
| 29 | Co-ordinator Pam McHale said £14,500 had been made available for the Streetlink scheme and that approval was expected for another nine schemes over the next week . |
| 30 | A sequential connectivity pathway is observed between aromatic and H1' protons , and between aromatic and H2' , H2 protons ( data not shown ) as expected for right-handed helical DNA . |