Example sentences of "be expected [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit . |
| 2 | Between now and Easter , thousands are expected to take up the invitation . |
| 3 | In smaller seasonal or residential hotels all the office work could be centralised in the reception office , and during the quiet period on the front desk the receptionist would be expected to carry out the task of maintaining accounting and other records . |
| 4 | In practice , the state scheme contributions pre-empt a slice of incomes which would otherwise be available for saving through pension schemes , and thus to that extent would be expected to slow down the growth of non-state provision . |
| 5 | With contracting , hospital doctors will be the agents of the provider , not the purchasing authority , and again can not be expected to take on the gatekeeper role . |
| 6 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 7 | Relatives of people living in care homes can be expected to make up the difference between the amount of benefit and the charges actually levied by by the home . |
| 8 | The answer is that no-one can control or even forecast accurately the maximum flow of water that can be expected to surge down the Tay valley and through Perth . |
| 9 | At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today . |
| 10 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 11 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |
| 12 | To recoup , the government is expected to speed up the passage of a law that would make insider-trading a crime . |
| 13 | St James 's University Hospital in Leeds , where the TV series is filmed , is expected to take up the proposal for self-governing trusts in NHS hospitals which was given the go-ahead in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 14 | A Computing Support Officer has been appointed , and is expected to take up the post on 1st July . |
| 15 | As time passes the new bride is expected to take on the identity of her new family , making her subjugation complete . |
| 16 | Indonesia , which was expected to take over the chair of the movement from Yugoslavia in September 1992 , was elected by the Larnaca meeting as de facto chair with immediate effect . |
| 17 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |