Example sentences of "expect [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is indirect evidence that the orbit of a binary pair , one member of which is the pulsar PSR 1913+16 , is collapsing at exactly the rate expected due to the loss of energy in gravitational radiation . |
| 2 | Many people expect this of The Smiths . |
| 3 | They only expect 12 around the dinner table these days at the family home at Stanton Harcourt . |
| 4 | Although the company has a plant in London , it is expected some of the work will go to the company 's French factories . |
| 5 | It is expected some of the Manual will be suitable to be offered to the Contracts and Purchasing Working Group charged with producing their own procedures document for BS5750 . |
| 6 | Despite the political unacceptability of increased dependence upon OPEC , the massive increase in production of synthetic oils manufactured from tar sands , oil shale , very heavy oil , alcohol and coal , which was expected prior to the fall in world crude oil prices , will not materialise during this century . |
| 7 | Arguably the most majestic covering was black Utrecht velvet ( Col. 15 ) ; Nelson 's 1806 coffin , furnished by Messrs France of London , with its gilt bronze fittings on padded velvet , was particularly sumptuous ( Col. 16 ) , but one would expect this of the crown undertaker 's work . |
| 8 | Such a thing is certainly not to be found on this earth ; yet those who pick to pieces the open texture or verbal infelicities of an international Convention rarely pause to consider how , when legislation prepared in a single legal system is generally so verbose , obscure , and generally badly drafted , one can reasonably expect more of the product of many hands drawn from widely differing legal systems with different cultures , legal structures , and methods of legal reasoning and decision-making , entailing maximum flexibility , co-operation , and compromise . |
| 9 | I do n't expect any of the players in Cwmni Theatr y Dreflan will suffer from any such illusions of greatness . |
| 10 | At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton ! |
| 11 | He half expected one of the police to dart forward and rearrange her-hair . |
| 12 | After the breakdown of talks in London he said he expected most of the cuts to fall on Merseyside 's Halewood plant . |
| 13 | He said he expected most of the cuts to fall on Merseyside 's Halewood plant . |