Example sentences of "expect to find a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected to find a drain . |
| 2 | She always expected to find a rival ; but there was no rival , unless you count Emma Bovary . |
| 3 | Visitors to the new Bible Lands Museum may be forgiven if they expect to find a museum of ancient manuscripts , a biblical Disneyland or an institution devoted to Israel 's spiritual past . |
| 4 | ‘ You expect to find an assassin masquerading as a goose ? ’ |
| 5 | Over 1.5 million people visit the Tate annually and could be expected to find a Tate magazine an attractive purchase . |
| 6 | Elsewhere one may expect to find a variety , from the very adequate to the very bleak . |
| 7 | Visitors were probably the biggest problem of all , for people calling round did n't expect to find a barn owl sitting in the living room . |
| 8 | In relaxation we may wish to monitor brain wave activity using an electroencephalograph ( EEG ) and would expect to find a shift in brain wave pattern toward synchronized high voltage , low frequency waves as the client relaxes . |
| 9 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 10 | If Marie Gibbs ' time course was right , I should expect to find a sequence of cellular changes in left and perhaps right IMHV and/ or LPO , associated with the several phases of memory formation , in the minutes to hours following the bird 's pecking at the bitter bead . |
| 11 | We might expect to find a source of order and sense of confidence in the home , but for these particular people this was just not so . |
| 12 | In political systems where there is free electoral competition between political parties for power , ‘ one might expect to find a connection not only between individual papers and parties but also a correspondence , or parallelism , between the range of papers and the range of parties ’ . |
| 13 | You might expect to find a house like this in some refined seaside resort such as Budleigh Salterton or Sidmouth , where , owing to the wars and consequent lack of foreign travel , the nobility and even a Royal or two were building elaborate holiday houses . |
| 14 | Would you expect to find a dog in the plum pudding Milly , what did you get that ten P for ? |
| 15 | It may happen that the indifference curve is tangent to the c 1 c 2 frontier at G ( the golden rule ) , but in general we would expect to find a situation such as P in Fig. 8–3 where ( as drawn ) . |
| 16 | If this kind of picture were to apply to the London Caribbean community , we should expect to find a pattern where Creole was used between members of the first generation and by them to their children . |
| 17 | One would therefore expect to find an attempt to define what debentures are . |
| 18 | Her edginess exacerbated by his strangeness , Robbie snapped back , ‘ I was n't expecting to find a cow here . |
| 19 | Expecting to find a look of mockery on his face , she was disconcerted to see that it held nothing of the sort . |
| 20 | If you were expecting to find a neck something akin to a telegraph pole with one side levelled off , you 'd be pleasantly surprised — this is an extremely comfortable and well-shaped laminate of mainly flamed maple . |