Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That would depend on whom I was expecting to entertain , and I can assure you I have worn less without feeling embarrassment in the right company . ’ |
| 2 | Er I I 'm expecting to come here but she probably wo n't |
| 3 | ‘ He says : well , OK , but get your skates on , sister , because I 'm real keen on this someone I 'm expecting , so being this really obnoxious kind of a female , she decides to kill his chances . ’ |
| 4 | A at what point would you first erm see someone who was expecting a baby ? |
| 5 | Around 25 per cent of those gathered will be distracted anyway ; they may be upset by their home situation ; concerned by some event which occurred on their way in ; confused by the absence of someone they were expecting to see . |
| 6 | At the time of enrolment you will also be given a timetable of lectures and practicals , and details of Faculty and campus induction programmes , which you are expected to attend . |
| 7 | Lodgings/digs These are generally unpopular with most students because of cost , set meal times and general restrictions — such as the number of baths allowed — and the times by which you are expected to be home and in bed ! |
| 8 | The kitchen was small and cramped , the house having been built pre-war with a dining room which you were expected to eat in . |
| 9 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 10 | On commencing work on a project they receive their normal , weekly Unemployment Benefit ( according to status and dependants ) plus the sum of £10.00 out of which they are expected to spend up to £4.00 on travel to work costs . |
| 11 | On commencing work on a project they receive their normal , weekly unemployment Benefit ( according to status and dependants ) plus the sum of £10.00 out of which they are expected to spend up to £4.00 on travel to work costs . |
| 12 | German software products company SAP AG , Walldorf , and Microsoft Corp have scheduled a press conference in Munich today , at which they are expected to announce ‘ something beyond ’ the agreement to put SAP 's R/2 and R/3 suites up under Windows NT , which they announced this week . |
| 13 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Where it employs professional musicians full- or part-time it should ensure that their salaries take account of their training and qualifications as well as of the time and contribution which they are expected to give to the worship . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On these occasions FANY and ATS drivers were given an allowance of six shillings a night with which they were expected to fend for themselves . |
| 17 | In other words there is a publicly accepted code of conduct which he is expected to perform . |
| 18 | He is due to appear before a Gibraltar court next Thursday to await extradition proceedings — which he is expected to fight . |
| 19 | It may have been enacted beforehand by the witnesses , so that they testify to what they have actually witnessed ; alternatively , the organiser of the mock trial may simply have given to each witness a statement of his evidence , which he is expected to remember . |
| 20 | Privately British officials believe Mr Patten will now have to endure a barrage of criticism from China over the next few weeks , following Prime Minister Li Peng 's report to the 8th National Party Congress next Monday at which he is expected to lambast the colonial administration for trying to subvert China with western-style democracy . |
| 21 | All this made his instruction in the scriptures and the explanation attached to them more dramatic ; not least his studies in the sacred language which he was expected to acquire . |
| 22 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 23 | But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests ! |
| 24 | Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses . |
| 25 | The naked body of Diana Travers , his domestic servant , was found drowned at his wife 's Thames-side birthday party , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 26 | Four weeks ago a girl who worked for him , Diana Travers , was found drowned following a party given for his wife on her birthday , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 27 | As far as the Herbert interest was concerned , therefore , Gloucester was put at the head of an existing connection which he was expected to do little to modify . |
| 28 | As far as the Herbert interest was concerned , therefore , Gloucester was put at the head of an existing connection which he was expected to do little to modify . |
| 29 | Recently , the Auditing Practices Board ( APB ) suggested in the preface to its Exposure Draft , Going Concern , that ‘ … one year is normally the period during which it is expected that the financial statements can reasonably be relied upon ’ . |
| 30 | This is a result of that historical process by which , through new media such as printing , material goods have been created with cumulative effect ; as a result of this powerful force for cultural production , the present generation has inherited a vast accretative mass of products in terms of which it is expected to know itself . |