Example sentences of "expect [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 6.8 shows the percentage of accesses to synonyms to be expected for various bucket sizes , in the 80/20 case . |
| 2 | Many women with no desire to reject the social round and daily duties expected of middle class wives , but who still deplored idleness as the antithesis of duty , often made an explicit link between their idea of duty and their spiritual responsibilities . |
| 3 | Capital costs have varied greatly , but in no case have reached the sort of level that one would have expected from shared space schemes , where costs are raised by the needs for complete resurfacing . |
| 4 | The first Plan indicated that about 60% ( 800 casualties ) of the target reduction may be expected from local authority initiatives and 40% from changes in legislation , improved vehicle design and heightened public awareness . |
| 5 | Therefore , if a firm engaged to write a computer program fails to measure up to the standards that would normally be expected from able computer programmers and the program turns out to be sub-standard then , prima facie , the firm will be liable in contract . |
| 6 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 7 | Antineutrons are expected by some particle physicists , who believe on theoretical grounds that neutrons could change into antineutrons on their way from the Sun to the Earth . |
| 8 | So this wealth of information — all of it updated much more regularly than you could expect through normal information channels — is greatly under-used . |
| 9 | But the future of this airline could be decided much sooner than that , and with it the levels of service and fares we can all expect on long haul flights . |