Example sentences of "expect [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | David was loyal to a fault , and in his naive understanding quietly expected the same kind of loyalty in return . |
3 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
4 | From the considerations of Chapter 15 , we expect the quantitative formulation of the relative importance of inertia and buoyancy forces to be made in terms of some form of the Froude number ( eqn ( 15.7 ) ) . |
5 | Although new firms continue to enter the market , most commentators expect the total number of GEMMs to decline further . |
6 | Users rightly expect the same standard of packaging as is found with other resources such as books and audiovisual material . |
7 | Furthermore , we would expect any doctor , not just our own , to behave in the ‘ proper ’ manner , in the same way that we expect the same sort of behaviour from all shop assistants , or all priests , or all fathers . |
8 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
9 | It is not always so obvious in relationships , where we often expect the bright flames of love to burn out of their own purity and spontaneity , but they too need refuelling in what may be quite prosaic ways . |
10 | Expect the unexplainable Top of the chat |
11 | They tend to be European , though , or Europeanized Egyptians and expect the social style of a club on the Riviera . |
12 | Industry analysts at Crédit Suisse in Tokyo expect the military side of the aircraft business in Japan to stagnate between now and 1995 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The West 's military experts did not , at this time , expect a Soviet invasion of Western Europe . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | You still have to be on top of your stuff , though — judges expect a certain level of competence to staging a little-girl-lost act in court will do no good whatsoever . |
17 | Event organisers , The Ivory Tower , in association with ‘ Duke of Gloucester ’ Steam Locomotive Trust and Crewe Heritage Centre , expect a large number of visitors and supporters to come and cheer them on . |
18 | ‘ Our customers expect a high level of knowledge . |
19 | This increase seems to be part of a broader social trend in which clients increasingly expect a high quality of service from professional people . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | You expect a little bit of jostling do n't you when there 's a crowd seen in the penalty box . |
22 | J. B. S. Haldane argued in 1938 , ‘ We may , I think , if the existing differences in fertility of social class continue , expect a slow decline of perhaps 1 or 2 per cent per generation in the mean intelligence quotient of the country ’ . |
23 | You expect a whole speech of explanation . |
24 | Find one in good condition and it will give endless pleasure but , being an old design , expect a fair amount of maintenance . |
25 | Ferry lines expect a huge rush of passengers taking advantage of the new freedom . |
26 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
27 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
28 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
29 | The fall in seasonally adjusted unemployment of 22,000 last month was even more of a surprise , at a time when forecasters had expected a further rise of 35,000 . |
30 | It is possible that , not being aware of the limitations brought about by the Project 's staffing numbers , non-participants had expected an unreasonable level of support . |