Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Union leaders say they expect an overwhelming call for industrial action in an imminent ballot , after employers refused to improve a 4.8 per cent offer on Monday . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | He expected a celebratory meal on re-entry into this life , and a litre of his own wine from the most recent good vintage . |
| 35 | When told it could , Postelnicu made it clear that he expected a regular supply of Scotch to be discreetly deposited there . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Prost said he expected a tough race but was satisfied with the performance of his car . |
| 38 | As England 's most capped cricketer , he expected an early telephone call once the team was finalised on Friday . |
| 39 | Why did he expect a good crop of sugarbeet ? |
| 40 | He expects a similar situation with Alpha , but says the company has just signed its first large contract in the US . |
| 41 | He wants to come in , but a glance up to the bridge tells me he expects a vast crowd to appear out of nowhere , the minute he strips naked . |
| 42 | THE Home Secretary has told colleagues that he expects a fresh Commons debate on the death penalty before the next election and that he would speak and vote for its restoration as a deterrent for some murders . |
| 43 | It expects a non-Russian contractor to be commissioned soon to construct an international terminal at Domodeovo . |
| 44 | ‘ He says the whole army is unsettled because it 's known that Famagusta will never give up while it expects a relieving ship to arrive . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | There is a streak of sadism in his performance which leads us to expect an answering streak of masochism in Katherine . |