Example sentences of "[noun] expect [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He went to the door , opened it and looked down the steps expecting to see the burly figure of the constable emerge and climb the steps to meet him , but to John 's surprise there was nobody at all .
2 If Gorbachev expects to untie the Gordian knot , he has over-estimated his powers .
3 Both companies expected to bring the bass Vladimir Ognovenko to sing Boris and the mezzo-soprano Irina Bogatcheva .
4 The MoD expects to select the new missile design this spring , but the weapon will not be in service until 1986 or 1987 .
5 They would be at risk from the vastly increased number of cars and heavy lorries expected to use the new tunnel .
6 At that time , Rommel was in retreat and the Eighth Army expected to enter the major port of Benghazi any day .
7 The study to which Minerva refers , by Sepkoski et al , compared women who received epidural analgesia , without randomisation , with poorly matched controls who had no pain relief ; matching was based on criteria expected to affect the placental transfer of the local anaesthetic bupivacaine .
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