Example sentences of "to be expect [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 2 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |
| 3 | Comparable rocks are to be expected under Mesozoic cover further east . |
| 4 | Accountants might therefore pay more attention to indicating the types of profiles to be expected for each category of SBU ; clearly , unthinking comparisons between them with respect to their financial performance should be avoided . |
| 5 | Table 6.8 shows the percentage of accesses to synonyms to be expected for various bucket sizes , in the 80/20 case . |
| 6 | ‘ This is only to be expected with more people taking advantage of the good weather to get out and about in the countryside . |
| 7 | By 1980 the succession of troubles along the Iran-Iraq border , combined with uncertainty as to the international behaviour to be expected of post-revolutionary Iran , was provoking a good deal of disquiet in the outside world , particularly among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) states . |
| 8 | John Lee , M.P. , made a similar point : ‘ This is , above all , an intimate field of emotional human relationships where rationality is not always to be expected of human beings . |
| 9 | Now , this is , to some extent this is perhaps to be expected of any group which is erm which runs the risk of being persecuted and then , they will be |
| 10 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 11 | This , too , indicates the kind of sequence of experience to be expected in aesthetic appreciation . |
| 12 | This was the wholesome outrage you might expect from any conscientiously angry young man , and could be safely ignored as the sort of bubbling over occasionally to be expected in intellectual cauldrons like Encounter . |
| 13 | As was to be expected in American contracts there was a paragraph prohibiting any act that would shock , insult or offend the community or degrade them in society . |
| 14 | The sequence of rifted margin evolution to be expected from passive rifting is illustrated schematically in Figure 4.18 . |
| 15 | Thus little transformation is to be expected from that direction . |
| 16 | The number of synonyms resulting from this process should be compared with those to be expected from perfect randomization ; see p. 166 for methods of doing this . |