Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meetings of the Association helped both to raise the consciousness of scientists and also to enforce some specialization : members expected to attend only one of the sections . |
| 2 | On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 . |
| 3 | Two home-grown drug research firms , British Bio-technology of Oxford , and Immunology of Cambridge , are expected to go public this year . |
| 4 | The scheme is expected to support around 250 new jobs during 1993/4 . |
| 5 | The Calcutt inquiry into press self regulation is expected to report back next year . |
| 6 | The test case is expected to affect almost 4,000 ‘ GI brides ’ . |
| 7 | This was expected to affect around 250,000 people and to cost the state between 6,000 million and 6,500 million forints ( about US$80-86,000,000 ) in 1992 . |
| 8 | Its newspaper , Trybuna Ludu , lost 1.7billion zloties ( £382,500 ) last year ; this year it is expected to lose nearly five times as much . |
| 9 | The overall number of those above pension age in Great Britain is expected to remain very close to 10 million for the next 20 years . |
| 10 | Between 1981 and the turn of the century the proportion of the population aged 65+ is expected to remain fairly steady at 15–16 per cent . |
| 11 | Provisional , expect to sound as good |
| 12 | Sections of the Grid which were expected to carry increasingly heavy loads ( such as those between the coalfield power stations in the East Midlands and load centres in London ) were to be constructed with wide clearances so as to be suitable for conversion to even higher voltages later should the need arise . |
| 13 | Altogether the new £28 million rail link is expected to carry over 1.5 million passengers a year . |
| 14 | After the report advisers are expected to carry out follow-up work and proposals for improvement acted on . |
| 15 | Unlike a trade association or informal market , an exchange is expected to carry out regulatory as well as trading functions . |
| 16 | When subjects were performing a variety of other judgment tasks they may have no longer expected to see particularly risky situations and consequently would have been better centred on the scale for risk ratings . |
| 17 | We would , therefore expect to see much greater lobbying in Congress than in the Commons , and so we do . |
| 18 | At the prizegiving , the winner is expected to pass on any tips to other members of staff . |
| 19 | Several thousand of the 226,000 people employed in the industry are also expected to clock up seven-figure incomes this year , making them targets of another Clinton tax proposal — a 10 per cent surcharge on earnings over $1 million a year . |
| 20 | In the Rockies the stations were not expected to secure so much local traffic . |
| 21 | Erm , to think that those who are dependant on benefit from public funds are gon na be expected to suffer still more is , as I said , wholly outrageous ! |
| 22 | You walk into a sewer , full of rats , and expect to come out nice and clean . |
| 23 | Worse was expected to come as industrial and domestic consumption of electricity picked up after the attrition of the war years . |
| 24 | THE DIFFERENCE between regular country acts and their rock 'n' roll equivalents is that your NME -friendly guitar-basher enjoys and is expected to try out new riffs , to be playful and weird . |
| 25 | Most critically , the island 's main export crop , sugar , was expected to total only 5,500,000 tonnes in 1992 , compared with 7,600,000 tonnes in 1991 , due to a 30 per cent drop in fuel supplies since 1990 . |
| 26 | The annual DMC event is followed on November 10 by the Technics DJ Championship World Mixing Finals at London 's Ministry Of Sounds , which is expected to attract over 1,000 DJs from around the world . |
| 27 | The Sainsbury petition was expected to attract about 2,500 signatures . |
| 28 | The mechanism which Roberts proposes might be expected to work anywhere that spruce is grown . |
| 29 | Each strategy will be given its own management team , which will be expected to work out all the effects over the whole company , including estimates of resource requirements for each subsidiary business . |
| 30 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |