Example sentences of "be expect [det] [noun] " 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 Some results are expected this autumn .
3 Versions for Solaris 2.0 , Sparcs running Motif and HP 9000s are expected this autumn .
4 Slightly more cheerful results are expected this week from another construction group , Amec .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Outbreaks of mainly light rain are expected this evening but these should die out around midnight .
8 In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived .
9 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 .
10 We 're expecting some students to get merit .
11 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 .
12 ‘ Maybe they 're expecting another explosion ? ’
13 For Jacqui and her husband , bank official David Thompson are expecting another child next month .
14 Esau can not have been expecting such remorse , such willingness to make amends from Jacob .
15 However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age .
16 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 !
17 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 .
18 It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 .
19 We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous .
20 I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock .
21 He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say .
22 It was to be expected that resistance would begin here too .
23 Pavlov ( 1927 ) expressed the view that the OR evoked by a novel stimulus constituted an ‘ obstacle ’ to conditioning ; and indeed , if conditioning is seen as a process in which the OR comes to be replaced by the CR , it might be expected that pre-exposure to the CS would facilitate this process .
24 It is to be expected that nature will surprise us ; what was significant about Forbes ' work was that he was a pioneer in studying the distribution of marine organisms , finding analogies between going deeper into the sea and going higher on land .
25 In contrast to the Sahel zone which is classified as semi-arid , Kuwait is arid ( Desertification Map of the World , FAO/Unesco 1977 ) so it is to be expected that desertification is a prominent problem and a major agent of environmental change .
26 As is to be expected such loans are liquid and generate income .
27 In a comparatively small health district such as West Cumbria ( 137000 population ) five to six deaths from asthma would be expected each year .
28 As might be expected any questions involving decimals were rather demanding , but it is noticeable that where the answer included a half success rates were higher than for 0.1 or unc and other decimals .
29 You may be expecting some kind of platform game with bouncing mushrooms but instead you need a fair bit of brain power too !
30 I 'm expecting another call from our informant .
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