Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 2 | Her children Peter , 15 , and 11-year-old Zara are expected to sit in the front pew for the short service . |
| 3 | Apple is still expected to proceed with the tattered case on the few elements that were not thrown out , including the idea of using a picture of a dustbin to signify deletion of a file and the way Windows handles type fonts . |
| 4 | The CRE 's findings and recommendations are expected to go to the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , for approval and action if its inquiry upholds complaints that the region 's methods may be in breach of race relations and education law for failing to test in a child 's first language . |
| 5 | How could Ezpeleta , a soldier-administrator well on in his seventies and now Captain General in Barcelona , be expected to appeal to the unemployed dockers , artisans , and cotton operatives , called by the French commander l'immense canaille de Barcelone , against an overwhelmingly superior French garrison ? |
| 6 | The Plant committee was expected to report to the Labour Party conference in the autumn , but Mr Kinnock denied that turning it into an official government commission was a delaying tactic . |
| 7 | Given the attractiveness of the venue , this undercapacity can be expected to continue in the medium term . |
| 8 | The choice of career is therefore very wide and this broad-based demand for mathematicians is expected to continue in the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | Growth in GNP was expected to slow to 2.2 per cent in 1991 and , although inflation might continue to decline , unemployment ( which had fallen from over 17 per cent in 1985-87 to 14 per cent in 1990 ) was expected to remain above the European average . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Scotland is expected to remain in the slow lane of economic recovery , according to two surveys published yesterday . |
| 11 | What kind of people what you expect to see on the local council in Nottingham ? |
| 12 | Deferred taxation is provided in respect of liabilities relating to timing differences between profits as computed for taxation purposes and profits as stated in the accounts , except to the extent that the liability is not expected to crystallise in the foreseeable future . |
| 13 | Longhorns , Galloways , Highlanders and other hardy breeds are all expected to benefit from the booming demand from Germany , Denmark and the Netherlands . |
| 14 | Highland cattle are expected to benefit from the booming demand from Germany , Denmark and the Netherlands |
| 15 | As New South Wales was the only state without an ALP government , the Liberal-National coalition was widely expected to benefit from the current unpopularity of the Hawke government , an expectation apparently supported by opinion polls published during the campaign which gave the coalition a lead of up to 16 percentage points over Labor . |
| 16 | Despite Cannavino 's touting of the wonders of Greenock , the machines are expected to come from the Far East . |
| 17 | A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties . |
| 18 | Deferred taxation is provided using the liability method on all timing differences to the extent that they are expected to reverse in the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | Provision for deferred tax is only made for any differences when they are expected to reverse in the foreseeable future , and no provision is usually made for deferred tax assets . |
| 20 | It has to be remembered that in the case of a unitized load , whether palletized or containerized , the driver can not be expected to pontificate upon the true nature , condition or quality of the goods being carried . |
| 21 | In Campbell and Palmer v Crest Homes ( Wessex ) Ltd ( 1989 ) unreported , Chancery Division , 13 November , the plaintiff vendors agreed to sell some development land to the defendant purchasers at the price the property might reasonably be expected to fetch on the open market at the relevant date on a sale by a willing vendor to a willing purchaser ; if the parties failed to agree the price within four weeks they were to refer to an independent surveyor to determine the price . |
| 22 | We need to have clarification of the role Helen Hoy would be expected to play in the new set-up . |
| 23 | They cause objects to seem to shift in position by only a small amount , which is what objects plausibly can be expected to do in the real world . |
| 24 | Union members are expected to vote on the new rules in the near future . |
| 25 | W. Walton Butterworth had already written that ‘ acute personal animosity between General Hodge and Dr Rhee , considered in conjunction with the fact that the latter is expected to emerge as the dominant figure , if not the titular head of the new government in south Korea ’ rendered Hodge 's departure inevitable . |
| 26 | Other cross-licensing and manufacturing deals are expected to emerge from the new-found synergy in all product areas , the three have hinted . |
| 27 | Other cross-licensing and manufacturing deals are expected to emerge from the new-found synergy in all product areas , the three have hinted — see below . |
| 28 | The Law Commission is also expected to deal with the legal issues surrounding computer viruses . |
| 29 | For long chains , co-operative motion can not be expected to extend along the entire length , and the polymer tends to act as if it were composed of a series of interconnected , but independent , kinetic units . |
| 30 | Few details of the Group A specification car have been announced , but most of its assets are expected to stem from the basic design rather than special tuning . |