Given the circumstances applause was, perhaps, the last thing to be expected.
Not, all things considered, the sort of thing to be expected from the stolid, earthbound Netherlanders, except that they took to it like ducks to a Dutch canal.
The notion that American writers "exist in another league is fatuous, cringing," Mr. McEwan said, the type of thing to be expected from "a certain kind of media academic who proceeds by mild insult".
Such things are to be expected.
These things are to be expected when the United States plays Norway in one of the very best sporting rivalries in the world.
Plus, when you have two free-spirited parents like Brad and Angelina these things are to be expected.
Some things are to be expected when you're abroad paying inflated prices for stuff like souvenirs and taxis is pretty much par for the course.
In an election year, this kind of thing is to be expected.
"People say we're putting ourselves out there, and this kind of thing is to be expected," she says.
But when the cinema has been conceived by Banksy and is housed in a railway arch off a licensed graffiti zone – indeed, when the carpet itself has been sprayed from a can – that sort of thing is to be expected.
(Also dishonest — they implied that gay marriage would threaten churches' tax exemptions, force church-affiliated adoption agencies to place children with gay couples, and oblige children to attend gay weddings — but that sort of thing was to be expected).
