Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control .
2 And the trend is expected to continue this year .
3 Now , after further lobbying by the Specialist Car Manufacturers Group , the self-regulatory body which Caterham founded ( Mr Nearn is its chairman ) , a secondary legislation amendment has been drawn up , and is expected to pass this year , which will allow Caterham to manufacture up to 500 fully-built cars a year , under a low volume manufacturer classification .
4 Applicants should hold , or expect to obtain this year , a degree of at least good second-class honours standard in an appropriate Arts or Social Sciences subject .
5 Oil exports are expected to increase this year , but will soon fall back ; domestic consumption is soaring ( because the stuff is so cheap ) , and few new wells are being drilled in the forests .
6 Even so , the flow of new money into eastern Germany is expected to grow this year ( see box on previous page ) .
7 FIRED by a 20 per cent surge in oil production , the Scottish economy is expected to grow this year by more than three times the UK average , according to a survey published today by the Stirling-based Mackay Consultants .
8 Lloyd 's is expected to announce this year losses for 1989 of between £1 billion and £1.6 billion though some market men fear the loss could rise to £2 billion .
9 On the database side , Unify is currently waiting to see how object technology develops before it makes a move , but is already hard at work on object extensions to its tools , the first of which are expected to emerge next year .
10 The Foreign Secretary had told the Commons that 42,000 people left the colony this year , and 55,000 are expected to leave next year .
11 The same number are expected to arrive this year .
12 We , we now think it 's appropriate to strike a medium balance , therefore we 'll get the de-loan stock interest up to ninety three , we 'll take in , in this year , which we expect to get next year .
13 Given that the decision of the Department of the Environment and of the Scottish and Welsh Offices will have huge implications for the levels of poll tax that people will be expected to pay next year , should we not have an early statement in the Chamber on those issues ?
14 For those students who expect to graduate this year , the prospects for employment seem no better than last , with around 12 per cent of last year 's crop still without jobs nine months after graduating .
15 As a Scot , I was expected to take New Year 's Day as leave rather than Christmas .
16 The inquiry , ordered by bosses at Clwyd County Council , is expected to take another year .
17 Construction is expected to begin next year and the first experiments could be under way as early as 1998 .
18 To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the most important international non-EC meetings which he expects to attend this year .
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