Example sentences of "expected [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The return expected for his political friendship was an additional post to augment his salary , and one advantage of a sheriffship was that it could be combined with another small office in the same district .
2 In short , he begins to display precisely the comportment his contemporaries would have expected of their rightful king .
3 Research done in Liverpool — albeit before the Partnerships — ( Nabarro and McDonald , 1978 ) , indicates that the inner areas received less than might be expected considering their total population .
4 An association between the ACE/ID polymorphism and blood pressure might have been expected from its anticipated effect on vascular tone and architecture .
5 Thenceforth his symphonic music inscrutably presented the emotions — albeit largely ironically — that the State expected from its leading composer while the quartets provided an outlet for the emotions within and for his personal responses to the event taking place in the world around him .
6 He failed , however , to get the rapturous reception he may have expected from his chief apologist on the international scene .
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