Example sentences of "expect the [adj] [noun] [prep] " 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 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 3 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | David was loyal to a fault , and in his naive understanding quietly expected the same kind of loyalty in return . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
| 9 | She had expected the royal apartments to be brimming with activity . |
| 10 | An announcement , perhaps blessed by Microsoft , is expected the last week in January . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Harold Hobson , the chairman of the Central Electricity Board ( who had expected the top job in the new organisation himself ) , pointedly refused to work as Citrine 's deputy and resigned from the CEB prematurely . |
| 13 | From the considerations of Chapter 15 , we expect the quantitative formulation of the relative importance of inertia and buoyancy forces to be made in terms of some form of the Froude number ( eqn ( 15.7 ) ) . |
| 14 | They expect the average tariff for an air trip to be £64.00 ( at 1987 prices ) in 1993 compared with £39.90 for a through rail trip . |
| 15 | It is then that we expect the best group from Southern Africa to be there , including the Homeland leaders . |
| 16 | In my union branch , as in many others , I expect the best activists to be voting Labour . |
| 17 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |
| 18 | Although new firms continue to enter the market , most commentators expect the total number of GEMMs to decline further . |
| 19 | I 've refused work , and I expect the same loyalty from Enya , even if she married Phil Spector tomorrow ! |
| 20 | The Prime Minister was heard in silence , and I expect the same courtesy to be extended to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 21 | Users rightly expect the same standard of packaging as is found with other resources such as books and audiovisual material . |
| 22 | Furthermore , we would expect any doctor , not just our own , to behave in the ‘ proper ’ manner , in the same way that we expect the same sort of behaviour from all shop assistants , or all priests , or all fathers . |
| 23 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 24 | It is not always so obvious in relationships , where we often expect the bright flames of love to burn out of their own purity and spontaneity , but they too need refuelling in what may be quite prosaic ways . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Expect the unexplainable Top of the chat |
| 28 | They expect the growing season for crops to be short . |
| 29 | Certainly we expect the biggest increase to be in long-haul carriage . |
| 30 | They tend to be European , though , or Europeanized Egyptians and expect the social style of a club on the Riviera . |