Example sentences of "be expect [verb] [prep] [det] [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 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 .
4 People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently .
5 The history department would be expected to participate in this process and then match up their own practice to that agreed .
6 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 .
7 Democracy might be expected to collapse under such pressure .
8 The banks would be expected to compete with each other in both the attraction of deposits and the making of loans .
9 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 .
10 It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies .
11 The view of human nature as fundamentally aggressive can be expected to prevail in those domains where it corresponds with social and cultural ideology .
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