Example sentences of "expected [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
2 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
3 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
4 | The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks . |
5 | He was expected to miss six week 's play . |
6 | ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Under Mary , the Crown set up a sliding scale of military liability , so that poorer members of the community were obliged to supply a suit of armour , spear and bow and arrow , while those worth a thousand pounds or more were expected to provide sixteen horses , sixty suits of armour , fifty helmets , forty pikes , thirty long-bows , twenty bills , and twenty arquebuses . |
9 | Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks . |
10 | Despite its own financial woes , IBM is expected to provide 60 days ' redundancy pay for each of the employees . |
11 | Zinc consumption was forecast to reach 5,360,000 tonnes in 1989 , a 2 per cent rise over 1988 levels , while production was expected to total 5,310,000 tonnes , up 1 per cent on 1988 . |
12 | The first European Design Automation Conference is scheduled for 7–10 Spetember at Hamburg 's Congress Center and is expected to attract 5,000 visitors : among those exhibiting are DEC , Harris , Sun , Cadence , Fujitsu and i-Logix . |
13 | They are shutting off 35 roads in Handsworth , Birmingham , to create 28 ‘ public safety zones ’ for the event which is expected to attract 500,000 visitors . |
14 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S annual ten kilometre road race will almost certainly be an event on its own this year and is expected to attract 700 runners . |
15 | She confirmed that she had resigned because she was expected to work five days a week instead of the three initially agreed . |
16 | It played an important part in attracting investment from Digital UK Ltd , Sun Microsystems Ltd and Motorola , which is expected to create 3,000 jobs . |
17 | Those projects are expected to create 1,294 jobs . |
18 | The £6 million scheme , which is expected to create 150 jobs with 85 more during construction , will provide DIY , electrical and furniture shopping facilities for the north-west of the city . |
19 | In addition to the 60 people now working at Regeneration House , the project is expected to create 1,800 construction jobs and when complete the station complex will provide 1,720 extra jobs . |
20 | Despite continued pressure from environmental groups to ban the use of lead , its consumption was expected to reach 4,430,000 tonnes in 1990 , very slightly ahead of the record levels attained in 1989 . |
21 | But by the end of the decade Renatel is expected to reach 100 megabits per second — a capacity made possible by France 's planned switch to fibre optics throughout its telephone system by the year 2000 . |
22 | Plateau production from Piper and Saltire is expected to reach 83,000 boepd and 57,000 boepd respectively . |
23 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
24 | This season the company has exported 640,000 tonnes of cereals and malt , while imports for the year are expected to exceed 200,000 tonnes . |
25 | The Commission had in fact drawn up a short list of six associations , from which the government was expected to select two groups . |
26 | This was expected to cover four days , arriving Thursday and leaving Sunday . |
27 | And some bidders are expected to buy 2 tractors , so they can get their collection off to a good start . |
28 | Mr Gonzalez 's party is expected to win 41 percent of the vote , with the conservative Popular Party a distant second at 23 per cent . |
29 | Grade 7s and above are expected to give three months . |
30 | Ah yes it could be that you 're expected to do thirty hours a week . |