Example sentences of "[noun pl] expected [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 3 | Three out of four independent economic forecasting bodies expected the Scottish economy to perform better than the UK economy both last year and this year . |
| 4 | " The tsar and his generals expected an easy campaign marked by heart-warming victories " , which was more or less what they got . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Soviet spokesmen expected the Third World states to form a strong constituency of support for Brezhnev 's plan and they chose their arguments accordingly . |
| 7 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |