Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The papal itinerary is expected to include the former Portuguese colony of East Timor , annexed by Indonesia in 1976 , which has a predominantly Catholic population . |
| 2 | About 100,000 people are expected to attend the 11-day annual event in the King 's Hall , Balmoral . |
| 3 | In addition to the Warrant itself , member companies are expected to attend the exclusive Annual Warrant Holders dinner , inviting a limited number of their important customers as guests . |
| 4 | At current production rates , production from the Wytch Farm field was expected to pass the 100 million barrel mark in early October . |
| 5 | Given this reality , a Common Foreign and Security policy can only be expected to reflect the lowest common denominator , the position which least offends . |
| 6 | For Sartre 's singular universal could never be expected to solve the formal theoretical problem of how individual existential existence can be related to History insofar as it simply renames , in one oxymoronic category , the original antithetical terms . |
| 7 | They were expected to recognize the national competitive importance of research and institutional efficiency , as formalized by the introduction of new postgraduate degrees ( especially the Ph.D. ) , and by the standardization of their administrative , faculty , and departmental structures . |
| 8 | With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages . |
| 9 | This extends to the appointment of ancillary and technical staff , who would be expected to have the same sympathetic qualities , and to making a case for help from the authority 's teaching and support services or for a welfare assistant to help with an individual pupil . |
| 10 | So far , another two hundred and thirty had been taken to the nearest hospital , although few were expected to survive the next twenty-four hours . |
| 11 | ERS-1 is expected to return the first quantitive data on these processes at the poles . |
| 12 | Such homogeneity of policy encouraged greater integration , culminating in the March 1991 Mercosur agreement between Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay to form a common market by December 1994 , although the political importance of such co-operation was expected to outweigh the potential economic benefits [ see pp. 37608 ; 38096 ; for common market talks between Colombia , Ecuador , Venezuela , Bolivia and Peru see pp. 37651-52 ] . |
| 13 | Meanwhile tomorrow another British convoy again of about a hundred and eighty women and children is expected to make the long hot journey from Kuwait to Baghdad . |
| 14 | China 's emissions of carbon dioxide , principally from its burgeoning coal industry , are increasing to the point where it is expected to become the largest single contributor of greenhouse gases within a few decades . |
| 15 | HEINZ FREI , the world record-holder from Switzerland , is expected to become the fourth foreign winner in five years of the BSAD-ADT London Wheelchair marathon tomorrow . |
| 16 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 17 | Half expecting to see the hideous little creep , Grimwood , with his partner , Steve , the smartly dressed good-looking man standing there was a surprise . |
| 18 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |