Example sentences of "and [be] expect [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months . |
| 2 | US President Bill Clinton has dismissed the referendum as a ploy to buy time , and is expected to press reluctant Europeans for military action against Bosnia 's Serbs . |
| 3 | The European Remote Sensing Satellite , ERS-1 , cost £500 million and is expected to spend three years observing the Earth from space . |
| 4 | The Argus will leave with the helicopters on board next week and is expected to take seven days to reach the Croatian port of Split . |
| 5 | Well 204/20–1 was spudded by the drilling rig Ocean Valiant on September 14 and is expected to take 35 days . |
| 6 | The first European Design Automation Conference is scheduled for 7–10 Spetember at Hamburg 's Congress Center and is expected to attract 5,000 visitors : among those exhibiting are DEC , Harris , Sun , Cadence , Fujitsu and i-Logix . |
| 7 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S annual ten kilometre road race will almost certainly be an event on its own this year and is expected to attract 700 runners . |
| 8 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
| 9 | The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough . |
| 10 | Spanish and Portuguese membership came only after long talks , and was expected to put greater pressures on the Social and Regional Funds , as well as increasing the costs of the CAP . |
| 11 | In contrast to the homespun approach of Chiles , Martinez was believed to have amassed some $7,000,000 to spend on his November campaign , and was expected to use negative tactics . |