Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries . |
| 2 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |
| 3 | They had expected some throwing of stones and worse from whatever straggle of peasants ventured down from the hills to the banks , and that they received . |
| 4 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 5 | ‘ We would expect more equity for unions in terms of employment . |
| 6 | Abolitionists did not expect immediate conversion by slaveholders ; it was not necessary in so far as they were sure planters could not for long resist the economic imperatives . |
| 7 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
| 8 | Almond and Verba , for example , found that an overwhelming majority of Britons expected equal treatment from politicians and from bureaucrats . |
| 9 | It does n't help that the band are grumpy bastards , expecting monkish silence during songs , and Bros-like adulation afterwards . |
| 10 | It does n't help that the band are grumpy bastards , expecting monkish silence during songs , and Bros-like adulation afterwards . |
| 11 | The public expects high-quality care for wounds from health-care professionals . |