Example sentences of "[be] expect [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SERIOUS traffic delays are expected while British Gas carry out excavations of the A59 at Rice Lane , near Walton Hospital , Liverpool . |
| 2 | We controlled the game better than might have been expected but this game is different and , however much you plan things , a goal can change everything . |
| 3 | That I got in — which had not been expected since this was a staunchly Conservative area — was due to two reasons . |
| 4 | It might have been expected that such a paper from Nägeli , who was one of the most distinguished botanists in Europe at that time , would have had immense impact on the early development of plant ecology . |
| 5 | US scientists who have analysed the data claim that there is no evidence that temperatures in the lower atmosphere have increased significantly , as could have been expected if global warming were underway . |
| 6 | Analysts also worry that only 4,000 people were taken off the payroll in the quarter , bringing the total at the company down to 98,100 — they had been expecting that more would leave the company . |
| 7 | In the light of certain of the clinical evidence it might be expected that one factor influencing the direction or degree of perceptual asymmetry obtained in laboratory experiments among left handers would be their degree of sinistrality . |
| 8 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
| 9 | It is therefore to be expected that many of the familiar solution generating techniques can be used to obtain new colliding plane wave solutions from already known , or ‘ seed ’ , solutions . |
| 10 | It might therefore be expected that many contests would provide fatalities , but this was not the case . |
| 11 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 12 | If the key processes are biochemical , then it might be expected that each memory will have its specific representation in terms of the synthesis of unique proteins or other molecules . |
| 13 | It is not to be expected that each sentence written will obey grammar rules . |
| 14 | Since each is a little different from its parent , it is only to be expected that each will be slightly more different from its grandparents ( and its grandchildren ) , and even more different still from its great grandparents ( and great grandchildren ) . |
| 15 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 16 | If bile reflux is important aetiological factor in gastric carcinogenesis in this situation , it might be expected that gastric mucosal DNA should also show evidence of bile related adduction . |
| 17 | It might be expected that subsequent cohorts of elderly people will be more likely to have children , and be survived by them , but other social and economic trends may reduce their ability and willingness to assume caring responsibilities for aged parents . |
| 18 | To the idealist , the whole world is a manifestation of a rational pattern in the mind of its Creator , and thus it is to be expected that natural forms should reveal a harmony and an underlying unity . |
| 19 | It can be expected that some rabbits confined in short burrows will begin to bolt quite quickly , at times almost instantly . |
| 20 | But speculative source-study can reveal more about the reading of the scholar than about the actual text whose possible sources are the object of the exercise and , after all , it is only to be expected that those who share a faith will also share a way of expressing it . |
| 21 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 22 | If a self-citation ( see 5.4 ) was , in the majority of cases , the first citation , it would be expected that these two values would be identical , because the first citation of the thesis would be in the author 's first related published paper . |
| 23 | It is only to be expected that these two rather different techniques , the Doppler shift technique and the " chirp radar " technique , would be useful for different special purposes . |
| 24 | There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’ |
| 25 | The topic of interpersonal distance has a copious literature in its own right ( see Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) and it is to be expected that any effects due to hemispheric asymmetry will interact with social and personality factors in different ways under different circumstances . |
| 26 | Each of these subjects involves a highly intricate body of law , and it is not to be expected that any one man or even three or four men can master them all . |
| 27 | In addition to the consumption of resources by the Contra war , it might well be expected that military invasion would harden government attitudes towards those whose actions were deemed anti-social or anti-government . |
| 28 | Hewitt ( 1983 ) is then led to conclude that most disasters are characteristic rather than accidental features of places and societies where they occur ; risk arises from ordinary life rather than rareness , and natural extremes are more to be expected than many of the social developments that pervade everyday life . |
| 29 | In the end , there is nothing better to be expected than dignified poverty with the consolation of friendship . |
| 30 | To return to the main point : we introduced surface dyslexia as the pattern of acquired dyslexia which would be expected if neurological damage had affected the lexical procedure for reading aloud and spared the non-lexical procedure . |