Example sentences of "expect [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 2 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 3 | And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below . |
| 4 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 5 | Moreover , the new credits entailed a transfer from husbands to wives or , as the issue came to be known , from ‘ wallet to purse ’ , and hence one might have expected the male-dominated TUC to be opposed to them . |
| 6 | She had expected the royal apartments to be brimming with activity . |
| 7 | He had n't expected the red carpet to be unrolled for him , but he had thought that at last he would be at work , setting up his meetings , on the move . |
| 8 | In my union branch , as in many others , I expect the best activists to be voting Labour . |
| 9 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister was heard in silence , and I expect the same courtesy to be extended to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 11 | Readers wishing to make a similar tray should note that it is not possible to assign values arbitrarily to the sides of the rectangle and ‘ rise ’ of both flaps and expect the resulting outline to be a smooth one . |
| 12 | This assumption is not necessarily an appropriate one , and we might , for example , expect the random terms to be correlated across individuals ( e.g. , reflecting the state of the economy ) . |
| 13 | Certainly we expect the biggest increase to be in long-haul carriage . |
| 14 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |
| 15 | I had expected an American senator to be as pompous and flatulent as a British MP , but George Crowninshield had proved affable and friendly . |
| 16 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 17 | He was certainly not one of the ‘ tame ’ scholars and did not expect the young people to be so . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 19 | On average , one would expect the faint sources to be the more distant ones . |
| 20 | We would therefore expect the following year(s) to be nearer the average . |
| 21 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 22 | But do you seriously expect the same people to be there after so long ? |
| 23 | They do not expect the medical profession to be disinterested , and are disappointed if it does not provide advice and support . |
| 24 | 2 What do you expect the retail price to be ? $399 was suggested for the 4000 , I think , of which you said $240 would be your net receipts . |
| 25 | He did not expect the French empire to be reconstituted at the end of the war . |
| 26 | However , I do not expect the full effect to be felt until next year , when I am sure we can expect a megaseller each month . |
| 27 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We might even fight Tucker first , but until Lennox 's coronation on January 14 , I do n't expect a firm decision to be made about his first defence . ’ |
| 29 | But then no one should ever expect a criminal organization to be trustworthy . |
| 30 | It does not expect a frail humanity to be capable of loving our neighbours more than ourselves : that would be a task of saintly dimension . |