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

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1 Talk by lecturers of students developing their critical abilities is just cant when students are obliged to adopt atomistic and surface approaches just to assimilate and reproduce the course content , and where they are expected to spend many hours every day in the laboratory or to complete an essay every week , and to sit ten or more 3-hour papers in 2 weeks .
2 In addition they are expected to spend more time on Art and Design History and Theory and on Management and Administration .
3 Mobility for women who make up 45 per cent of the labour force involves little choice once they reach the 25–30 age group when they are expected to take temporary retirement into marriage .
4 Because of this , the only shock that can disturb current prices from the value they are expected to take next period is a relative demand shock .
5 Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks .
6 No-one in the Liverpool dressing room is left in any doubt as to the standards they are expected to achieve each time they are selected .
7 IBM and Sybase Inc have cooked up a co-development/co-marketing deal revolving around the RS/6000 that they 're expected to announce this week .
8 Whereas young men as a matter of course would study the classics , women would be instructed in painting , music , dancing , modern languages , or other accomplishments , but rarely would they be expected to achieve real competence Indeed , a learned woman was likely to experience difficulty finding a husband , and education might cease to be any advantage .
9 Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support .
10 The members of the Battalion mess were so superior , it seemed , that they were expected to have unlimited funds at their disposal .
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