Example sentences of "[adv] expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's will sell another Picasso on 15 November — Au Lapin Agile , from the Pink period — which is widely expected to break the previous price records . |
| 2 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 3 | INFLATION is widely expected to accelerate towards 7.5 per cent late this year after yesterday 's one point increase to 15 per cent in base rates made higher mortgage interest rates inevitable . |
| 4 | But it is widely expected that further heads will have to roll if the discredited Communist Party is to retrieve the situation . |
| 5 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 6 | ENGLAND may not , as had been widely expected , play all their opening World Cup finals games in Sardinia next year . |
| 7 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 8 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 9 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 10 | It is widely expected to soar to 1m-2m this year . |
| 11 | So the ‘ Brady plan ’ for debt relief , since 1989 America 's main way of cutting the commercial-debt burdens of poor countries , was widely expected to fail . |
| 12 | Fletcher , who , as captain , guided Essex to their first eight trophies between 1979 and 1985 , is widely expected to replace Micky Stewart at the end of this season when he retires , probably to take up a role with the TCCB . |
| 13 | Mr Kinnock is not obliged to include Mr McNamara in his first Cabinet but it is widely expected in the province that the Liverpool-born Roman Catholic would assume the portfolio that he has shadowed for more than five years . |
| 14 | In 1964 , although widely expected to reach the higher echelons of the Army , Winchester retired at his own request and settled in Kenya , where he kept dairy cattle on a farm outside Nairobi . |
| 15 | The radicals were widely expected to lose seats after a committee judging the suitability of candidates prevented about 1,000 of the 3,000 hopefuls from taking part , including several well-known radicals . |
| 16 | Mr Major 's appointment of two women to the Cabinet will certainly add a touch of glamour to his team , and had been widely expected . |
| 17 | The sea is widely expected to break through the narrowest point of the peninsula any year now . |
| 18 | One common solution to this problem , which avoids the politically undesirable alternative of imposing or reimposing fees , is to rely on parents to provide equipment , just as they are very widely expected to help in the construction and sometimes the furnishing of schools . |
| 19 | Widely expected to have won last year 's Turner Prize , which was , in fact , awarded to Grenville Davey , Wilding is , nevertheless , enjoying a high profile , with a museum exhibition of ten sculptures from the last ten years having been organised by the Newlyn Art Gallery , where it was seen in March , and now transferred to IKON in Birmingham ( to 5 June ) . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , although possessing a less extensive grant of power , the Commission was widely expected to be the dynamic element in further moves towards integration . |
| 21 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 22 | NeXT has been widely expected to endorse Motorola 's 88000 RISC CPU as a matter of routine . |
| 23 | A Chinese victory had been widely expected , and many Westerners were shocked by the apparent totality of Japan 's triumph . |
| 24 | European economic integration was widely expected to bring enormous benefits since an extensive single trading area ( such as existed in America ) might allow larger-scale industrial production and greater efficiency . |
| 25 | In April and May Jenkins ' style of fiscal management was widely approved , and a Labour election victory was widely expected . |
| 26 | They receive a rapturous reception , which is as it should be : here , after all , are the players who have lost just one league game in the previous fifteen months , the players who are widely expected to terrify the rest of the continent in the European Cup , the team with the best strike force and the meanest defence in the First Division . |
| 27 | These are very substantial changes which are widely expected to continue in the 1990s . |
| 28 | The acquisition , which was widely expected , was welcomed in the City , and Pearson shares jumped up 10p to 429p . |
| 29 | ‘ People also want to feel more at home which is why facilities like tea and coffee , perhaps a minibar and , in some of our hotels , satellite TV , are widely expected . |
| 30 | The new party aimed to present a viable alternative to the existing groupings but was widely expected to take part with the BNP in forming an anti-Awami League alliance . |