Example sentences of "be expect [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | However such effects might be expected to arise from relative inflation rates rather than a UK measure alone . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Conversely , strong ‘ selection pressure ’ , we could be forgiven for thinking , might be expected to lead to rapid evolution . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Instead , AHAs would be expected to put in appropriate bids for development . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , not all change of state verbs can be expected to occur with adverbal adjectives even then ; for instance , murder and burn do indeed produce a change of state that can be described by an adjective but one which is so intimately linked to the nature of the verb and so banally obvious that the adjective describing the object is otiose . |
| 19 | Hall , Kaye , and Pearce ( 1985 ) have pointed out that just as latent inhibition can occur during the CS-US pairings of excitatory training ( producing a fully trained CS+ that will form further associations only slowly ) , so latent inhibition can also be expected to occur during inhibitory training . |