Example sentences of "expect [conj] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When long hair was the trademark of the hippy and the dropout , it is to be expected that an anti-hippy movement should adopt short hair . |
| 2 | It was expected that an economic upturn would lead to attempts to repay foreign debts and thus gain Libya access to fresh lines of international credit . |
| 3 | Euro-American society is already suffering from a bad self-esteem problem , and I expect that an uncritical belief in the moral supremacy of nature will make it worse . |
| 4 | Like Harrison , he expected that an earlier form of Afghan neutralism could still be resuscitated . |
| 5 | In a devastating criticism Jeffrey Stanyer concluded ‘ that the Maud Committee must be regarded as one of the most disastrous uses of an advisory committee that can be envisaged , if one asks and expects that an advisory committee will provide an authoritative analysis of the problems set by its terms of reference , and by rigorous reasoning propose defensible solutions which have a practical use ’ ( Stanyer 1970:66 — 7 ) . |