Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 2 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 3 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 4 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 5 | At St Bartholomew 's Hospital , 75 beds have closed ; Parkside Health Authority has closed a 20-bed ward it had just re-opened to try to tackle waiting lists ; and proposals to close some beds at the London Hospital are expected to go next week to Tower Hamlets Health Authority , which faces a £1.3m overspend . |
| 6 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 7 | The report , Choosing a Sustainable Future , is expected to carry considerable weight with the Clinton administration ; several members of the team responsible for preparing it are close to the new president . |
| 8 | Conditions were expected to include further liberalization of exchange regulations and the provision of credit and tax changes . |
| 9 | Both these cat families were in zoos , where the proximity of the male was forced on the female and where , if anywhere , one might have expected to see tom-cat aggression towards the young . |
| 10 | Our estate agency loss has been reduced and we expect to see some improvement in this business as the housing market responds to lower interest rates . |
| 11 | Following that up when , when can your long suffering shareholders er , expect to see any return on the B Sky B stake and a follow up on that ? |
| 12 | A high-speed rail network planned between Seoul and Pusan in the south-east and between Seoul and Mokpo in the south-west was expected to encourage regional development in the relatively underdeveloped south . |
| 13 | The Parti Seselwa , led by Wavel Ramkalawan , which won 4.4 per cent of votes , was expected to secure one seat under a " best losers " system . |
| 14 | We expect to secure more work in 1993 for specialist areas of activity in particular with HV Fox and Satellite DGPS and there will be closer operational links with Aberdeen . |
| 15 | According to the government , it 's a figure which is n't expected to bear any relation to the minimum cost of living . |
| 16 | However , the Council 's forecast in July 1990 of a rise in world wheat production by 28,000,000 tonnes to 564,000,000 tonnes in 1990-91 , with coarse grains expected to rise to 837,000,000 tonnes , was expected to provide limited replacement of stocks . |
| 17 | A new satellite launched by India is expected to provide additional information on the country 's natural resources . |
| 18 | Ultimately , it is expected to provide overnight accommodation for up to 30 volunteers . |
| 19 | France was reported on Dec. 4 to have offered to contribute 1,500-2,000 troops to a multinational force expected to total 35,000 , and was expected to provide logistical support through its base in Djibouti . |
| 20 | Though those parents who were able to escape to England might have been expected to accept immediate responsibility for their offspring , this was often not practicable . |
| 21 | Any attempt by the administration to bring about a comprehensive lifting of sanctions before all US conditions were met had long been expected to meet strong opposition in Congress . |
| 22 | These conditions were expected to meet stiff resistance in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 23 | Completion of the Single European Market is expected to increase this form of labour mobility by removing legal and professional qualification barriers . |
| 24 | With the FLN victory of 1962 — two years after Camus 's death — there was an immediate exodus of French Algerians and now , as I walk the streets , it seems ridiculous to have expected to find any trace of Camus 's Algiers — like an American travelling to England in the hope of finding Dickens 's London . |
| 25 | The speeches in the House of Lords pointed out that one would have expected to find this section in a Part of the Act dealing with company charges rather than in that dealing with debentures , and accepted that the mortgage would not be a ‘ debenture , ’ for the purposes of some of the other sections . |
| 26 | Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 28 | The criticisms contained in the report are expected to cause considerable embarrassment to the government , which maintains that since energy saving reduces costs it will come about naturally if market forces are allowed to function without interference . |
| 29 | The multi-dimensional scaling configuration resulting from processing the ‘ degree of intermarriage ’ values might therefore be expected to reflect geographical location of the villages . |
| 30 | The collapse of the Keating empire , and the destruction of much of Kuwait city by the occupying Iraqis , might have been expected to dim Kuwaiti interest in hotel development in Phoenix . |