Example sentences of "expected a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Prior to the general election , when many experts expected a Labour victory followed by a rise in base rates , there were several enticing bonds to go for . |
| 3 | Mr. Gould expected a rich harvest from the appearance of the plain , both as respect [ sic ] quadrupeds and birds , but it was remarkably destitute . |
| 4 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 5 | The nation expected a radical new impetus from Mrs Thatcher in May 1979 , but it was curiously long in coming . |
| 6 | In the past most white-collar workers , and particularly those belonging to ‘ professional ’ occupations , expected a long-term stable employment pattern , often with the one employer for a large part of their working life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had no clear idea what he was going to do but expected a good gathering at Linley 's house and thought an opportunity would occur . |
| 9 | Those who expected a predictable finale to this unpredictable match got far more than they anticipated . |
| 10 | ‘ I expected a wee charge from Middlesbrough early on . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I expected a high-powered event , with dozens , if not hundreds of people present . |
| 13 | He expected a celebratory meal on re-entry into this life , and a litre of his own wine from the most recent good vintage . |
| 14 | A cynical nihilist , Andrei expected a sticky end ( if only at the hands of his master and mistress ) and wanted to live well before it came . |
| 15 | When told it could , Postelnicu made it clear that he expected a regular supply of Scotch to be discreetly deposited there . |
| 16 | Returning to the expected tetrahedral form , we can assign the polarized Raman bands to three of the four expected a 1 modes . |
| 17 | When Zeppelin told PHIL KING their next game was on ice , the rotund reviewer expected a long delay ! |
| 18 | He said he expected a substantial part of that money to be used as a ‘ starter ’ sum for Darlington schools St Augustines and St Bedes . |
| 19 | She expected a loud shout of . |
| 20 | Even rewards such as these were a shade oblique for those who expected a direct return upon money invested . |
| 21 | In January 1989 the government said it expected a further 361,000 sales over the next three years . |
| 22 | BAT Industries was unsettled by news that rival Philip Morris expected a 40 per cent fall in tobacco profits and planned price cuts . |
| 23 | Prost said he expected a tough race but was satisfied with the performance of his car . |
| 24 | Pope John , it is said , ‘ had not envisaged the possibility of rejection and expected a rapid and painless vote in favour of projects that he had read through and welcomed with full approval ’ ( Ratzinger Report , 1985 , p. 41 ) . |
| 25 | For a moment I expected a knuckle-rapping response , but after a brief hesitation , he said , ‘ My verse was obscure because I was obscure to myself . |
| 26 | Random House expected a modest début for the novel , even deciding against a publicity tour . |
| 27 | Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future , even though he expected a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year — a rise of perhaps about 7 per cent to 1.7 million . |
| 28 | Melissa half expected a vigorous defence of Dora 's protective friendship , but the reaction was precisely the opposite . |
| 29 | It fully expected a massive expansion . |
| 30 | Philip Henry expected a late-Victorian respectable pattern of behaviour from his sons . |