Example sentences of "[noun] expected [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the tourists find themselves the underdogs with Will Carling expected to lead England to their third win in the sides ' 10th meeting . |
| 2 | The gang expected to net £5,000 as they ambushed a wages clerk on her drive back from the bank . |
| 3 | His Midas touch has given Sunrise 94 per cent of its target audience and a turnover expected to reach £4million . |
| 4 | The government 's decision , approved by parliament in May 1990 , to privatize state banks nationalized in 1982 [ see pp. 32071 ; 37449 ] was part of a ambitious privatization programme expected to raise $10,000 million by the close of 1991 and attract increased foreign investment . |
| 5 | In illus.1 a sophisticated Paris readership expected to see reality heightened , not burlesqued . |
| 6 | It means the savings expected to follow council reform could be less than suggested — an issue which may become crucial since the Government has been anxious to demonstrate that dismantling the present two-tier council structure would bring meaningful savings . |
| 7 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 8 | ‘ If you look at what is likely to happen this summer with Les Ferdinand valued at £5m by Queens Park Rangers and Roy Keane expected to cost £4m , that 's £9m for two players . |
| 9 | In 1993 , Russia expected to reduce oil exports to Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) countries , while keeping exports to the West at 1992 levels . |
| 10 | Germany has been the jewel of Ingres ' crown , with 700 new licences expected to push revenues there up to DM35m from DM27.6m last time around . |
| 11 | The managers interviewed in all four companies expected to initiate matters in the foreign language ( usually verbally — by telephone ; but also by producing draft written outlines of reports ) and then subcontracted the work to highly skilled subordinates , such as bilingual secretaries . |
| 12 | Esso and Shell have announced petrol price rises to a record high of two pounds , forty-five for a gallon of four star from midnight with other companies expected to follow suit . |
| 13 | The first step was to construct a set of hypotheses expected to influence variables relating |
| 14 | City : BT £4bn stake expected to open privatisation sales |
| 15 | But , with the group expected to follow George Wimpey and John Laing in making substantial provisions , it could end up £25m to £30m in the red . |
| 16 | The voluntary committee which runs the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival expected to receive £8,340 for its 14th annual programme , which begins a ten-day run at the end of May . |
| 17 | Wigglesworth expected to spend days re-establishing a classical style — but no , they knew about Mozart , and economy and focus . |
| 18 | Normally the ‘ illegals ’ are handed back to China on the border almost daily , but Peking now says it will check each case , a move expected to slow repatriation to a trickle and put further pressure on the Territory 's detention centres , which are already overflowing with Vietnamese boat people . |
| 19 | Whaling meeting expected to leave issue unresolved |
| 20 | NTT FOREIGN PROCUREMENTS EXPECTED TO SHOW INCREASE |
| 21 | How are Guyanese people expected to buy goods from Britain or anywhere else when they are so impoverished ? |
| 22 | SunPro , the technology development division of Sun Microsystems Inc , is this week expected to announce software technology directions that will boost the power of its Sparc RISC microprocessor . |
| 23 | ICL is this week expected to reveal details of plans to offer its OfficePower office automation package on a range of Unix platforms , including Santa Cruz Operation Inc Open Desktop , Sun Sparcstations and IBM RS/6000s ( UX No 384 ) . |
| 24 | Mackenzie expected to exchange trade goods for beaver skins , but the Nez Perce refused to trap beaver , since it was not consistent with their seasonal existence . |
| 25 | The Leeds Permanent building society expected to increase rates by at least 1.25 per cent . |
| 26 | The agreement , under which the government expected to save $1,000 million , included options for the creditor banks ( i ) to make new bond loans carrying a 15-year maturity and seven-year grace period before payment of interest which would be equivalent to 20 per cent of their exposure ; ( ii ) to offer 30 per cent discounts on bonds for loans swaps in return for guarantees on principal and interest payments and additional payments after six years if oil prices rose beyond a specified level ( thought to be $26 per barrel ) ; ( iii ) to cut interest rates to 5 per cent for two years before gradually raising them ; or ( iv ) to allow the Venezuelan government to buy back existing loans at larger discounts ( estimated to be 60-65 per cent ) should the banks be willing to take the loss . |
| 27 | In this family both women and men expected to use kin contacts as a way of finding work . |
| 28 | Virtual reality systems supplier Division Ltd intends to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange , with the share placing expected to take place next week courtesy of Manchester-based broker , Henry Cooke Lumsden . |
| 29 | Were women expected to do things still , or was it all earth-motherhood and fulfilment-through-family these days ? |
| 30 | Now the poly is now appealing to townspeople to join the hunt to find homes for around 100 students expected to need bedsits or flats in September . |