Example sentences of "be expect [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 job mobility : will the employee be expected to move to another town if the employer wants him to work elsewhere ?
2 Out of a population of 8000 ‘ normal ’ men , 17.2 would be expected to die of such cancers .
3 The UK Atomic Energy Authority , in a " worst-case scenario " , suggested that some 10,000 Soviet citizens could be expected to die of radiation-induced cancer as a result of the accident , with a further 30,000 fatalities possible worldwide .
4 In a " worst-case scenario " , the UK Atomic Energy Authority has suggested that up to 10,000 Soviet citizens could be expected to die of radiation-induced cancer as a result of the accident , with a further 30,000 fatalities possible worldwide .
5 For every 1000 patients admitted to hospital with acute evolving myocardial infarction , about 100 can be expected to die within 35 days .
6 If questioned about the response , the attitude-holder can be expected to engage in explicit justification of their stance and to offer criticism of the counter-stance .
7 Taking for example the nuclear power plant control room , the question is whether the desk operators should be expected to cope with all emergencies which appear within the total information presentation or whether , for complex and dangerous situations , a more senior person such as the shift-charge engineer should be called upon to make the decisions .
8 People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently .
9 How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ?
10 The history department would be expected to participate in this process and then match up their own practice to that agreed .
11 However such effects might be expected to arise from relative inflation rates rather than a UK measure alone .
12 Troops from both sides would be expected to assemble at predetermined points around the country within one month of the ratification of the treaty ; they would surrender their weapons to UN monitors within six months .
13 As biological bias is increased toward one choice as opposed to another in the course of genetic evolution , the mode of the ethnographic curve can be expected to shift in that direction .
14 Although yet greater extremes of poverty might be expected to exist in bigger towns , an outstanding feature of Chichester was the clearly higher level of wages effective there , with many artificers assessed at 40s. a year , though these were sure to have been balanced by an anonymous mass of recorded paupers .
15 For instance , the ‘ coming of age ’ of a baby boom can be expected to lead to higher levels of migration towards the ‘ bright city lights ’ , while the subsequent increase in the numbers of young couples is likely to lead to greater demand for family-size housing and suburban residential locations .
16 This was done to maximize the possibility of detecting contrasts over conditions , since an asymmetry would be expected to lead to high proportions of singular continuations which might make differences between conditions hard to detect .
17 Conversely , strong ‘ selection pressure ’ , we could be forgiven for thinking , might be expected to lead to rapid evolution .
18 The people who were devoting their lives to transforming society into an egalitarian paradise could not be expected to live like other people who had nothing better on their minds than scratching a living .
19 Instead , AHAs would be expected to put in appropriate bids for development .
20 If the subject-matter is sequential , the teacher must ask himself whether it is essential that step A is known to have been mastered before the beginning of step B , and what is the essential minimum ; he will then go on to decide how the achievement of that minimum can be tested , what can be done for those who do not reach it , and whether the material is such that comprehension or insight might be expected to dawn at later stages after more exposure to the subject field .
21 Democracy might be expected to collapse under such pressure .
22 Such processes will be temperature-and-time-dependent and so the uniform stress assumption would be expected to fail at low temperatures and the composite elastic moduli to approach the ( Voigt ) upper-bound values .
23 One suggestion is that the folding maintains the appropriate kinetic unit of the chain at any given temperature ; as this would be expected to lengthen with increasing temperature , it would account for the observed thickening of the lamellae .
24 Beyond that , law centres would be expected to look to local authorities and other sources to fund work arising out of other needs of the communities they serve .
25 However , there is little basis for confidence , since , as Frankel writes , ‘ research activity has been concerned almost exclusively with the probability of neediness and not with the distribution of those who might be expected to benefit from particular interventions .
26 Management accountable to owners can not be expected to enter into meaningful agreements , planning or otherwise , which limit their freedom under the law to act in the best interest of the owners .
27 The banks would be expected to compete with each other in both the attraction of deposits and the making of loans .
28 In 1992/93 the maximum loan was £715 and this can be expected to increase in real terms in coming years ; at the same time , the level of the maximum maintenance grant and parental contribution has been frozen at 1990/91 levels .
29 But the links were not consistent or sustained , in part perhaps because it was unclear what the general discussions could be expected to deliver for particular firms and structure plans , in particular , soon gained a reputation for being of little relevance for actual processes of development .
30 The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike .
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