Example sentences of "expected [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | David was loyal to a fault , and in his naive understanding quietly expected the same kind of loyalty in return . |
| 3 | However , if people expected a lucid analysis of the ills of contemporary education , together with appropriate and carefully contrived proposals for change , they were disappointed . |
| 4 | It is also possible that late nineteenth and early twentieth-century working class women expected a greater degree of drunkenness and violence on the part of husbands than would be tolerated today . |
| 5 | When told it could , Postelnicu made it clear that he expected a regular supply of Scotch to be discreetly deposited there . |
| 6 | He said he expected a substantial part of that money to be used as a ‘ starter ’ sum for Darlington schools St Augustines and St Bedes . |
| 7 | She expected a loud shout of . |
| 8 | Melissa half expected a vigorous defence of Dora 's protective friendship , but the reaction was precisely the opposite . |