Example sentences of "expect [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first planeload of ANC exiles returned home from Zambia on March 7 , and a further 550 were expected during the ensuing weeks . |
| 2 | The fallacy that secondary impotence is to be expected as the male ages is probably more firmly entrenched in our culture than any other misapprehension . |
| 3 | The Junior boys and Cadet girls are defending champions but much is expected of the Junior girls side , with the U-12 girls having an outside chance of upsetting Leinster . |
| 4 | Thus we find a much more uniform field-pattern , uniform as regards both size and shape , than we might have expected in the grazing counties of central England . |
| 5 | It was a part of the prophecy of disintegration and chaos to be expected in the latter days ; within that context it was but one detail in a large picture , but here it was all , it was an answer . |
| 6 | Its primary purpose was to make room for the large number of civilian air-raid casualties which were expected in the big cities . |
| 7 | But more activity on those fronts is expected in the coming months . |
| 8 | But with the last cut in the discount and Lombard rates in early February , and further reductions expected in the coming months , it clearly recognises the need for lower rates even if it does adhere to its policy of small steps . |
| 9 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 10 | A new , hard-edged approach is expected from the joint services maxi-yacht , Satquote British Defender , in the second leg to Fremantle , Western Australia . |
| 11 | Dependency levels in residential care have risen substantially , particularly in the private sector , even beyond levels expected from the greater numbers of elderly people . |
| 12 | However , they also escaped the severe censure that might have been expected from the high-minded moralists who strutted busily through the Victorian England of his day . |
| 13 | The provision of a placid monetary environment in which monetary policy was not itself a source of instability was the most that could be expected from the monetary authorities . |
| 14 | She had a pretty shrewd idea that Desmond had only the haziest notion of how much could be expected from the various books , and she had intended to keep it that way . |
| 15 | Migration ( Figure 4.5B ) has played the key role in these growth patterns — indeed , to a greater extent than might be expected from the overall rates of population change , because it is also compensating for substantial natural decrease in some of the fastest growing counties , principally those noted as retirement areas like East and West Sussex , the Isle of Wight , Dorset and Devon ( Figure 4.5A ) . |
| 16 | The abrasive challenge expected from the notorious Bègles front-row duo failed to materialise . |
| 17 | Normally , little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland , but Alex Mair , anxious to associate the power station with the community , had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round . |
| 18 | The coup was apparently neither instigated nor expected by the Soviet authorities , and it brought a regime to power which was bitterly divided by factional differences . |
| 19 | This was the major design feature of the new units — that they should represent the competences , knowledge , skills and understanding expected by the major users of an award . |
| 20 | It is not intended to provide the detail that is rightly expected by the local communities who live and work in close proximity to our operations , and which we provide through locally published reports . |
| 21 | They would simply raise disdainful eyebrows and say what else could one expect of the lower orders ; the Irish ? |
| 22 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 23 | All spoke here of man 's work — his enterprise , his pleasure ; stately hotels vied with one another , handsome shops displayed in their windows all the luxuries one might expect in the great cities of the realm . |
| 24 | We should also not rule out the possibility that one may properly look to a historical explanation , just as a historical explanation underlies the fact that the comparatives of tired and spoilt — derived from verbs — are analytic , as in : ( 56 ) Declan is more spoilt than Karen Declan 's mother is more tired than Karen 's mother rather than the synthetic forms — tireder , spoilter — which we should expect from the monosyllabic adjectives which they have become . |
| 25 | In Germany in 1939 , a British Gentile , let alone a Jew , knew what to expect of the Nazi authorities and got out if they could . |
| 26 | The second , however , tells you what to expect from the 2 procedures . |
| 27 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 28 | At first they seemed brighter , smaller and cruder than she had been led to expect by the polite reproductions . |