Example sentences of "expected [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women born in 1955–9 with non-manual fathers expected rather more children ( 2.44 to 2.12 ) than women from manual backgrounds , and the new difference is maintained in the most recent cohorts ( General Household Survey ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I never expected so many to show up . |
| 3 | I told him I should have to publish Sir Hubert 's disclaimer , and warned him that an unedited publication would endanger implementation of an appointment from which Burmans expected so much , and would also lead to an unhappy relationship between the paper and the government . |
| 4 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 5 | In last week 's edition of The Sunday Telegraph , Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote : ’ It was a woman speaking from inside Dubrovnik against a background of shellfire who said : We expected so much from Europe and got so little . ' |
| 6 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 7 | Gross margin was as we expected broadly level with the second half of last year . |
| 8 | The authors expected more specialist practitioners to develop in all aspects of hospital and community nursing , acting as team leaders in many cases . |
| 9 | Mirror directors are understood to be deeply concerned about the mounting costs as the company continues to work on its 1991 results figures and a report on on its financial health , now expected later this month . |
| 10 | Mirror directors are understood to be deeply concerned about the mounting costs as the company continues to work on its 1991 results figures and a report on its financial health , now expected later this month . |
| 11 | RUSSIA 'S athletics chief , Valentin Balakhnichov , has announced he will wait for dope test results , expected later this week , before passing judgement on four athletes expelled from Sweden on Monday . |
| 12 | In the immediate term they 're determined that there should be no vacuum following publication of the results of the government 's stocktaking of the Scottish condition , expected later this month . |
| 13 | It was organised to promote public discussion of the topic in advance of a Government white paper , expected later this year , on the future of science and technology . |
| 14 | Bertha Cohen snorted as if to convey that she expected as little from grandchildren as from children . |
| 15 | I expected far greater progress than this . |
| 16 | A US military spokesman , Colonel Fred Peck , said yesterday he expected about 4,200 troops to travel by sea from Mogadishu to Kismayu within the next 24 hours . |
| 17 | It is a relief I suppose today , that I am able to speak to you on the basis erm of financial output which is a good deal more favourable than we expected even six months ago . |
| 18 | Now expected late next month , the pen-driven handheld computer is said to be able to organise data such as an appointments diary and can communicate with other machines by dialling phone numbers and sending facsimile messages . |
| 19 | A Finn represented the fusion of Scandinavia and Hungary ( to which country they were first cousins ) so no doubt she expected too much of Erkki . |
| 20 | They all expected too much of me . |
| 21 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 22 | However it is also fair to say that the professional leaders sometimes expected too much from the change ; it is no slur on an honourable movement within the American profession that its initial success did not immediately bring the golden age . |
| 23 | ‘ You expected too much of me , then ! |
| 24 | He did not want anyone to get too close to him , especially after his years with Vivien , and there was a point at which he withdrew from those who expected too great an intimacy . |
| 25 | When he pulled her back she expected very harsh reprisals but all she got was a very speculating look . |