Example sentences of "expect a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Even if the company had too much money for its own good and wanted to go way over the top it should certainly expect a finished block of 60,000 square feet for £9.4m .
2 Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty .
3 Guests can expect a fantastic standard of both accommodation and service , and we think the food 's pretty good as well !
4 Why did he expect a good crop of sugarbeet ?
5 What appalling style , even twenty years ago one could expect a better standard of English .
6 The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives .
7 Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions .
8 Their results suggest Europe can expect a greater frequency of blocking anti-cyclones which will lead to warmer summers but cooler winters , a greater frequency of severe winters , drier springs and summers , wetter autumns and winters , and an increased growing season .
9 But if he killed Harry , would n't you expect a greater amount of soaking ? ’
10 If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that .
11 For example , scales a tritone or a semitone apart have only two notes in common ; all other notes are different , and so one can expect a considerable degree of conflict unless ( as in the Bartók example ) adequate vertical consonance can be maintained .
12 If a company can limit its interruption claim to a period of three months rather than three years , it could expect a premium reduction of between 25 and 50 per cent .
13 Do not expect a cast-iron guarantee of success .
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