Example sentences of "expected [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her brother he had met before and the two men talked about the year 's haysaving and the price they expected for sheep and wool and cattle . |
| 2 | With debut goalkeeper Tim Flowers in fine form , England came within 13 minutes of a victory that no one expected after World Cup disasters in Poland and Norway . |
| 3 | This he expected from Turnour 's voice , manner and the way he looked as he was sitting . |
| 4 | The forelock tugging Casey expected from others in between the randy nights with Annie runs through this book — tainting its pages with cant and hypocrisy . |
| 5 | Christine obviously thought she was going to get much less than she expected from Graham Mills ' will . |
| 6 | In 1990 the expectation of life at birth stood at 80 years for women and 73.9 years for men , higher than that expected in New Zealand , the United States , and the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | Although fewer than one in 10 identified another family member as unable to work due to their cystic fibrosis , the employment rate among mothers of adults with cystic fibrosis is less than that expected in women aged 45–60 . |
| 8 | ‘ What the State expected in return was some sort of obedience and a loyalty which often ran directly counter to the truth . |
| 9 | But Jim says his firm had to settle for less than they expected over work on the Minister 's home in Putney , south-west London . |
| 10 | What has happened to the statements that we expected on revenue support grant ? |
| 11 | ‘ I expected to curry quite a lot of disfavour from almost everybody , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Bream expected to feeder , 100 lb plus bags possible . |
| 13 | The survey data will be analysed fully at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California , where a catalogue of all sources discovered , expected to number in the region of 1 million , will ultimately be made . |
| 14 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 15 | Although the principal activity of many of the nobles in Edward III 's reign was war , their fundamental concern was always their inheritance , the lands and rights which formed the basis of their wealth and power and which they expected to hand on to their heirs . |
| 16 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 17 | The ‘ things I expected to value ’ . |
| 18 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 19 | And as a bonus , IRAS should be able to send back information for at least nine months , instead of the seven expected at launch . |
| 20 | Not that most of the 2,000 expected at Tabard 's Hertfordshire field will have any choice — the club does not possess a stand . |
| 21 | OpenVision 's technology is aimed at managing large geographically dispersed networks of heterogeneous computers with the degree of control comparable with that expected by mainframe users . |
| 22 | Output is thus affected by the deviation of the price level from both that expected by workers in period t - 1 and in period t - 2 . |