Example sentences of "expected [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 2 | At St Bartholomew 's Hospital , 75 beds have closed ; Parkside Health Authority has closed a 20-bed ward it had just re-opened to try to tackle waiting lists ; and proposals to close some beds at the London Hospital are expected to go next week to Tower Hamlets Health Authority , which faces a £1.3m overspend . |
| 3 | Market makers can aim to run only modest positions in any group of similar stocks or they can run large but offsetting positions , i.e. being long on certain stocks and short on others such that capital gains and losses can be expected to cancel each other out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Salvage and repair work and pumping are expected to continue all day , but more rain is forecast for tonight . |
| 6 | And the trend is expected to continue this year . |
| 7 | Trade has been stimulated by the process of detente , and the moves towards ‘ democratisation ’ of the Eastern Bloc can be expected to continue this process . |
| 8 | The first tranche of these sanctions , affecting imports worth US$300,000,000 , was due to take effect on Dec. 5 and was expected to affect French wine and food products , since the USA held France responsible for the deadlock . |
| 9 | The report , Choosing a Sustainable Future , is expected to carry considerable weight with the Clinton administration ; several members of the team responsible for preparing it are close to the new president . |
| 10 | Conditions were expected to include further liberalization of exchange regulations and the provision of credit and tax changes . |
| 11 | He was expected to miss six week 's play . |
| 12 | Both these cat families were in zoos , where the proximity of the male was forced on the female and where , if anywhere , one might have expected to see tom-cat aggression towards the young . |
| 13 | A high-speed rail network planned between Seoul and Pusan in the south-east and between Seoul and Mokpo in the south-west was expected to encourage regional development in the relatively underdeveloped south . |
| 14 | Custodians are expected to inform each other immediately when children are moved from one part of the country to another , and the child 's name should be immediately registered in the new locality , pending a case conference . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Parti Seselwa , led by Wavel Ramkalawan , which won 4.4 per cent of votes , was expected to secure one seat under a " best losers " system . |
| 17 | According to the government , it 's a figure which is n't expected to bear any relation to the minimum cost of living . |
| 18 | However , the Council 's forecast in July 1990 of a rise in world wheat production by 28,000,000 tonnes to 564,000,000 tonnes in 1990-91 , with coarse grains expected to rise to 837,000,000 tonnes , was expected to provide limited replacement of stocks . |
| 19 | The first tier consists of paraprofessional village health workers , resident in each village , who are expected to provide primary health care to everyone in the village . |
| 20 | THE GOVERNMENT is expected to provide financial assistance to help protect Sinn Fein advice centres from loyalist attacks . |
| 21 | A new satellite launched by India is expected to provide additional information on the country 's natural resources . |
| 22 | Ultimately , it is expected to provide overnight accommodation for up to 30 volunteers . |
| 23 | France was reported on Dec. 4 to have offered to contribute 1,500-2,000 troops to a multinational force expected to total 35,000 , and was expected to provide logistical support through its base in Djibouti . |
| 24 | The systems will vary in size from six to 33 users and are expected to provide on-line tax collection system support to more than 3,000 tax officials by the end of the year . |
| 25 | Under these provisions local authorities are expected to provide Intermediate Treatment , which is designed to replace attendance and detention centres . |
| 26 | Though those parents who were able to escape to England might have been expected to accept immediate responsibility for their offspring , this was often not practicable . |
| 27 | Digiboard and Computone are expected to launch LAN-based add-in cards before the end of the year . |
| 28 | NCR is expected to position Top End 2.0 as protecting current investments in IBM Corp hardware and software , including CICS environments , and easing the transition from legacy systems . |
| 29 | Any attempt by the administration to bring about a comprehensive lifting of sanctions before all US conditions were met had long been expected to meet strong opposition in Congress . |
| 30 | The Northern Ireland winger is expected to meet new Forest manager Frank Clark on his return from this week 's World Cup game in Lithuania , for discussions on his future . |