Example sentences of "expect [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those with children at RC schools expected the highest moral standards . |
| 2 | The bishops expected the hallowed Authorized Version to maintain its mastery because it was sanctified in everyone 's affections and moral sentiments . |
| 3 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 4 | In the long run Dulles expected the superior economic strength of the United States to ensure its success against the USSR . |
| 5 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 6 | As widely expected the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of — Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) won a majority of seats at national and provincial level to give it an absolute majority in the National Assembly . |
| 7 | ‘ All in all , we expect the new Ki-Maasai Bible to serve in excess of one million people ’ , he said . |
| 8 | We therefore expect the two stretching regions of the spectrum to show the patterns illustrated in Fig. 5.43 . |
| 9 | That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such . |
| 10 | I was a bit blue , and being blue always makes me satirical , so I expect the odd unfair jest might have escaped my lips . |
| 11 | If the Government listens to tomorrow 's debate in the House of Lords , the region so-called new age travellers can a expect a long hot summer of evictions . |
| 12 | Expect a strong southern contingent at Lisburn , intent on relieving Ballinascreen 's Theresa Kidd of the ladies title . |
| 13 | Muller and his team-mates expect a hard four-match tour and welcome the challenge . |
| 14 | Expect a few small roach and skimmers on pole and squatts when after the thaw . |
| 15 | He 'd expected a great brazen trumpet hanging , with a legend in outlandish characters — ‘ Who dares to brave the giant 's wrath , let him sound this trump . ’ |
| 16 | This later recommendation surprised many who had expected a liberal/academic working party of ‘ the great and the good ’ to turn their backs on the idea of retaining a paternalistic and arguably outmoded system of adult censorship . |
| 17 | He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike , a thunderbolt maybe , as he queued for the body and blood . |
| 18 | Having expected a casual Italian place , Belinda was a little perturbed to realise that this was L'Epoque , Brisbane 's newest and most talked-about French restaurant , which must surely have required a booking in advance . |
| 19 | She 'd expected a steady upward climb , but suddenly the tunnel dipped and steps went down beside a white race of water . |
| 20 | The Reuters poll shows only 5 p.c. of dealers expect an outright Tory victory , while a similar proportion are looking for a clear Labour majority . |
| 21 | It is clear from our analysis in the previous section that we do not expect the strange invariant set produced at r 13.926 to be stable and we do not expect it to show up in numerical simulations ; the behaviour described in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) above ( r } 13.926 ) can not be predicted from the purely local analysis . |
| 22 | We should expect the mass-selling tabloid press to have a stronger influence on public attitudes and choices than on public information and perceptions . |
| 23 | From what has been said , we would expect the heaviest proportionate effects of the government 's many methods of reducing employment to fall on the North . |
| 24 | Fewer patients were referred from peripheral hospitals in the region , even though one would expect the many peripheral hospitals jointly to have seen as many patients with similar problems as the fewer large central district general hospitals . |
| 25 | Equally one might expect the full-time paid CAB worker , who normally eschews the middle-class volunteer , to cheer the broadening of the CAB volunteer base . |
| 26 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |
| 27 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 28 | As Barr et al ( 1989 ) put it , ‘ We must expect the new independent hospitals to act like any profit-maximising firm . |
| 29 | Pierce took the logical view that he did not expect the All Black selectors to be interested in him again . |
| 30 | You 'd expect the unhelpful advance publicity to make him wary of the Press . |