Example sentences of "[vb pp] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applied to directors , this would mean that they would be required to exercise such care and skill as is reasonably to be expected of a person occupying the relevant position . |
| 2 | And standing on the resting birds are massive caryatids — each one as grim and unsmiling as might be expected of a lady who is balancing an arch on her head . |
| 3 | Walter Henry , as might be expected of a man of his background , calling and intellect , was much concerned with the well-being of his people and campaigned actively on their behalf . |
| 4 | Generosity was expected of a king ; loyal servants expected to be rewarded , and patronage if skilfully used could bring the king much support . |
| 5 | It uses less than three-quarters of the energy expected of a mammal of its size . |
| 6 | The poems are of course cleverly written but that is only to be expected of a writer of John Bitumen 's calibre . |
| 7 | Such applicants may be asked to take a test or take part in some other selection procedure to assess whether they are likely to be able to cope with the work expected of a university student . |
| 8 | This may not do justice to the proper degree of personal and professional self-regard which is expected of a head . |
| 9 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 10 | The Code of Conduct is primarily intended as an indication of the standards of behaviour expected of a member of the Association . |
| 11 | No less is to be expected of a vehicle sold with a manufacturer 's warranty . |
| 12 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |
| 13 | However , keep , paint , leave , produce , drink do not support subordinate clauses ; and , while they can be followed by the same sequence of noun phrase + adjective , the adjective is not clausal in their case but a predicate qualifier , and it shows the other characteristics to be expected of a predicate qualifier . |
| 14 | It heralded a flood of Italian imitation such as might be expected of a period when English culture was particularly fascinated by everything Italian . |
| 15 | Another phospholipase A 2 -derived lipid , platelet-activating factor , also has some of the properties expected of a retrograde messenger . |
| 16 | ‘ But in the Government 's view the Department 's handling of the case was within the acceptable range of standards reasonably to be expected of a regulator . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Ridley defended the DTI 's handling of the case and insisted it was ‘ within the acceptable range of standards reasonably to be expected of a regulator ’ . |
| 18 | hotel accommodation if you are required to stay away from home , and including meals taken at the hotel , but excluding private telephone calls and drinks beyond normal hospitality expected of a director |
| 19 | hotel accommodation if you are required to stay away from home , and including meals taken at the hotel , but excluding private telephone calls and drinks beyond normal hospitality expected of a director |
| 20 | hotel accommodation if you are required to stay away from home , and including meals taken at the hotel , but excluding private telephone calls and drinks beyond normal hospitality expected of a director |
| 21 | The standard of care expected of a doctor was laid down in the following case . |
| 22 | And it remains to enquire to what extent other associative abilities experimentally revealed in other species approach those to be expected of a creature able to use linguistic symbols . |
| 23 | As expected of a de-luxe hotel , the well-hotel , the well-appointed rooms feature bath/WC , radio , telephone , TV and minibar and some have a balcony . |
| 24 | If the fringe soon proved to be rather tattier , the services more underhand than the original promotional copy made out , well , that was only to be expected of an enterprise left to run itself without Capellan supervision . |
| 25 | Sometimes too much can be expected of an opportunity to put forward the company 's point of view . |
| 26 | By then it was inevitable , given such wide terms of reference and the thoroughness expected of an inquiry by a Royal Commission , that its report could not be completed and delivered until after a General Election had taken place and , as it turned out , a new Government had come into power . |
| 27 | She had been reminded of a school outing , with the guide leading the party in a crocodile down man-made stairways protected by iron railings , stopping every few yards to bombard his audience with statistics or manipulate the complex lighting and communication system . |
| 28 | It was a kind of verbal display ; listening , she was disconcertingly reminded of a bird idly preening , limbering up with bursts of song , stretching a wing … |
| 29 | Skin tones varied , and scars like scarlet ropes ran about the anatomy , so that one was reminded of a butcher 's diagram . |
| 30 | Felix was reminded of a man in the grip of a terminal fever . |