Example sentences of "expect [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 PLEASE NOTE All groundhoppers are expected to wear the following regulation uniform : ‘ Donovan ’ canvas cap , blue anorak with Ford Motors logo , brown Crimplene trousers , a battered Liverpool/Spurs/Hendon hold-all , a dog-eared red ‘ Winfield ’ notebook with short two-inch pencil , filthy trainers , a hideously expensive camera and a pocket full of Mars bars .
2 However States are not expected to monitor the prior treaty commitments of their potential treaty parties to ensure that they are compatible .
3 A hundred and fifty thousand people are expected to attend a spectacular music festival over the weekend .
4 Naturally you expect to find the highest quality construction in the world in a Mercedes , but the 500SL we tested had numerous faults that we thought ‘ undermined Mercedes ' quality image and appearance ’ .
5 Distinction Awards are Postgraduate studentships which are open to students ordinarily resident anywhere in the UK , who hold or expect to obtain a 1st class Honours degree and who have not previously obtained a postgraduate research award .
6 Having taken control of Volvo 's 29 per cent Pharmacia stake , which carries nearly half of the voting rights in Sweden 's biggest drugs company , Procordia is expected to launch a full takeover bid of at least £1billion .
7 The UK group is expected to meet the small group criteria for its current financial year ending 31 December 1992 having met the relevant criteria in its previous financial year .
8 So everyone will have to settle for Namibia and Romania , who will make a refreshing change but are not expected to challenge the Southern Hemisphere stranglehold on this tournament .
9 Such an action would have been expected to lower the cyclic AMP content irrespective of the agonist used to stimulate the cells .
10 However , BA is now expected to announce a revised partnership deal in which it would gain a 20% stake worth about $340m .
11 NCR is expected to announce a full Unix implementation of its Cooperation office software running on Intel machines at Unix Expo .
12 This spring , it is also expected to win the third-party policy administration contract for Leeds Life , should Leeds Permanent Building Society decide to set up its own life assurance operation .
13 The draw , which will divide the 24 qualifiers into groups and determine the nine venues , is expected to draw a worldwide TV audience of more than one billion and be attended by 10,000 dignitaries , soccer officials and media personnel .
14 Those studies utilised a probe with 700 µ diameter optical fibres , however , whereas the probe in the present study had narrower , more closely spaced fibres , and this would be expected to reduce the effective measurement depth .
15 It has a majority of just 16 in the 630-seat lower house but Mr Amato is expected to call a fresh confidence vote in the next few days to prove he still has parliamentary approval .
16 After arriving in the late afternoon , she is expected to board a local Liat airline flight for one of the Caribbean islands , with St Kitts emerging as a possible holiday venue .
17 ATHENS — The Greek President , Christos Sartzetakis , is today expected to name the Supreme Court President , Yannis Grivas , as Premier of a caretaker government until elections on 5 November , writes Peter Thompson .
18 Sotheby 's will sell another Picasso on 15 November — Au Lapin Agile , from the Pink period — which is widely expected to break the previous price records .
19 Mr Souness is expected to have a triple bypass operation later today to relieve the narrowing or blocking of his arteries .
20 For a fixed number of traders , they derived the result that the covariance of squared daily price changes and daily volume is a positive function of the variance of the directing or mixing variable , and this relationship is expected to have a heteroscedastic disturbance term .
21 For example , brothers and sisters who differ in age share genes to the same extent as dizygotic twins , and so in a purely genetic disease would be expected to have the same concordance rates — but they do not .
22 I mentioned earlier that American experience suggests that marketing costs can be expected to equal the actual building costs of the unit , and we ought to regard this as the minimum outlay for planning purposes .
23 Such procedures are right for generating the phenomenon in Wagner 's associative form — a series of widely spaced exposure trials will promote the formation of a context-stimulus association ; and the after-effects of presentation of the target stimulus could not be expected to survive a 24-h retention interval .
24 British Waterways expect to complete a national feasability study within a year .
25 Following political pressure in the Congress throughout March 1990 the government was expected to alter the proposed privatization terms of Entel , which was to be divided into two companies .
26 Just four days after completing a 30-hour journey from Edinburgh to Darwin they were expected to overcome a nine-hour time difference and temperatures in the 90 's to beat a Northern Territories Invitation XV .
27 THE Republic of Ireland expect to have a full strength team out on Wednesday , they expect to beat Lithuania and they expect to be in the USA for next summer 's World Cup finals .
28 Page 29 Report due : Coopers and Lybrand are expected to hand the Serious Fraud Office their report on how Ferranti came to be defrauded of £215m within days .
29 Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 .
30 Estimated in excess of £200,000 , the wedding suit of James , Duke of York , later James II of England , is expected to achieve a new world record for any item of costume at auction .
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