Example sentences of "[noun prp] expect a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Gould expected a rich harvest from the appearance of the plain , both as respect [ sic ] quadrupeds and birds , but it was remarkably destitute . |
| 2 | Nor is Mr Marshall expecting a Hollywood-style transformation of the club 's fortunes on the field . |
| 3 | Leading scorer Paul Wilkinson expects a tough match against his first professional club . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mary Ingham , also from Leeds , said she had booked to see Swan Lake expecting a traditional production . |
| 6 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 7 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
| 8 | Given what seems to be an insatiable demand — with simultaneous booms in office and factory automation , fuelled by the development of new Japanese language processing systems — Mizuno expects a steady stream of new entrants into the software service business during the coming five years . |
| 9 | UI expects a fully-converged ABI to result over time , which will eventually include some form of requirement for a common development environment . |