Example sentences of "expect a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tourists too can expect a right Royal welcome , for the traditional friendliness of the islanders makes everyone feel at home . |
| 2 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 3 | With these photographs as a reference point we can expect a traditional Gandini shape when we see the car on 15 September next year , the 110th anniversary of Ettore Bugatti 's birth . |
| 4 | IT 'S only June and this week alone you can expect a staggering 130 repeats . |
| 5 | At this point in the tale most readers would expect a tragi- heroic ending , and indeed in the hands of Rider Haggard or Masefield this would almost certainly have been the case . |
| 6 | As the insurance companies could expect a huge increased revenue , they in turn could be expected to bear a large proportion of the cost of implementing the scheme . |
| 7 | But do n't expect a sudden wholesale change from the one architecture to the other , warns Parker ; a number of commercial applications are not amenable to parallelisation , and anyway IBM 's Sysplex clustering will ensure that the existing and new architectures should work together happily . |
| 8 | After all , you simply do not expect a newly-arrived wild fish , especially one being subjected to a ‘ blue period ’ , to be so tame . |