Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 She expected a loud shout of .
2 You expect a little bit of jostling do n't you when there 's a crowd seen in the penalty box .
3 You expect a whole speech of explanation .
4 But if he killed Harry , would n't you expect a greater amount of soaking ? ’
5 Its intensity ( that is , its energy content ) is given by the square of this , so we expect a transmitted fraction of unc as is indeed the case .
6 We welcome the emphasis on safety in the North sea , but we expect a parallel prioritisation of the extremely dangerous potential accident sites onshore , and we expect to see an improvement in that situation .
7 There should then be no plateaux in the Hall voltage because as more electrons are added to an unfilled Landau level we expect a smooth decrease of the Hall voltage .
8 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 .
9 When told it could , Postelnicu made it clear that he expected a regular supply of Scotch to be discreetly deposited there .
10 Why did he expect a good crop of sugarbeet ?
11 It expects a slow take-up of server versions of the operating system , and forecasts NT will take a 6.5% share of all server systems sold in Europe by 1996 .
12 The decades since 1950 , the 40 most revolutionary years in the history of human society , should lead us to expect a massive disintegration of old values , a collapse of old certainties .
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