Example sentences of "be expect [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By way of contrast , official 1991 accounts from the South Devon Railway Trust are expected any day , and will show that the largely volunteer run operation at Buckfastleigh has managed a healthy tax-free surplus of around £60,000 ! |
| 2 | Forty thousand are expected next year . |
| 3 | Full details are expected next week . |
| 4 | Details of their biggest UK tour in three years are expected next week . |
| 5 | Further details on the appointments are expected next week . |
| 6 | The results of the tests are expected next week . |
| 7 | Some results are expected this autumn . |
| 8 | Versions for Solaris 2.0 , Sparcs running Motif and HP 9000s are expected this autumn . |
| 9 | Slightly more cheerful results are expected this week from another construction group , Amec . |
| 10 | Cantona has become so attractive to Leeds that they are expected this week to offer him a two or three-year contract , and Nimes , his French club , a further £800,000 , when the striker 's loan period expires at the end of the season . |
| 11 | DETAILS are expected this week of a rescue package for the Gateway supermarkets group after bankers were warned it was on the verge of collapse . |
| 12 | Outbreaks of mainly light rain are expected this evening but these should die out around midnight . |
| 13 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 14 | The IBM announcement had been expected this month , and the delay is thought to have been occasioned by the need to respond to the Hitachi announcement . |
| 15 | We 're expecting good news from the States and there should be a knock-on effect . " |
| 16 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe they 're expecting another explosion ? ’ |
| 18 | Nurses in the USA are expecting better time ahead after the election of Bill Clinton as president last week . |
| 19 | For Jacqui and her husband , bank official David Thompson are expecting another child next month . |
| 20 | ‘ I was n't in Belfast for the second leg but from what I saw on television they gave Tbilisi a lot of problems and that 's what we are expecting next week . |
| 21 | Esau can not have been expecting such remorse , such willingness to make amends from Jacob . |
| 22 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 23 | France has been expecting heavy snow all week to 1200m … and still waits . |
| 24 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 25 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 26 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 27 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 28 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 29 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 30 | Mr Cattell said : ‘ We had been expecting bad news but had no idea where the axe would fall . |