Example sentences of "[verb] [be] expect for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 2 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 3 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 4 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 5 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 6 | The third had been expected for some time . |