Example sentences of "[noun] expected [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 2 | Mr. Gould expected a rich harvest from the appearance of the plain , both as respect [ sic ] quadrupeds and birds , but it was remarkably destitute . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 5 | Yesterday the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland put its pennyworth in when Alex Brown , the milk committee convener , said the union expected a reasoned decision from the secretary of state . |
| 6 | It is also possible that late nineteenth and early twentieth-century working class women expected a greater degree of drunkenness and violence on the part of husbands than would be tolerated today . |
| 7 | Random House expected a modest début for the novel , even deciding against a publicity tour . |
| 8 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |