Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous bidders expected this Fairchild to reach into the $ 35–45,000 range . |
| 2 | A large proportion of firms expected this expansion to continue throughout the 1980s . |
| 3 | I expect that lot belonged to her late husband . ’ |
| 4 | We open tonight , expect wonderful reception judging by other performances . ’ |
| 5 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
| 6 | IF THE Chancellor expected consistent advice backed by irresistible logic from the first submission from his seven wise men , he will have been disappointed by their 80-page text plus statistical appendix yesterday . |
| 7 | Now we would expect that justification to emerge from this examination and in due course to be embodied in the er lower case script for the alteration itself . |
| 8 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 9 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |
| 10 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 11 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 12 | Why , why might we expect structural change to occur in this example ? |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think it is fair to expect this lady to pay for a new lock . |
| 14 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 15 | James McDermott , president of a bank-share specialist , Keefe , Bruyette & Woods , expects First Fidelity to look for branches and banks in Connecticut and upstate New York . |
| 16 | Should the ensuing insomnia mean dropping off during the day , then again you will be awakened , this time by real Hercules transport planes — Elveden Forest , being in East Anglia , is very close to numerous air-bases and so many jets scream overhead that one expects any minute to bump into a tight-lipped Kate Adie dressed in camouflage fatigues . |