Example sentences of "[pron] [be] expect [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know I was expecting to share Water Gypsy with Fenella . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was expecting to have dinner with a client this evening , but the appointment has been unexpectedly cancelled . ’ |
| 3 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 4 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 5 | The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years . |
| 6 | Before describing and assessing the binomial and Black and Scholes option pricing models it is appropriate at this point to examine the factors which are expected to influence option premiums and in the next section to have a brief look at the various investment strategies that may be created with options and securities . |
| 7 | Souter also refused to reveal his views , stating that he would refrain from commenting on any judicial issues prior to his confirmation hearings which were expected to take place in September 1990 . |
| 8 | Annex B approval was received in April 1992 for the development of the Caister gas field [ LASMO 21 per cent ] which is expected to commence production before the end of 1993 . |
| 9 | And despite the even bigger swing to the right-wing coalition in the first round of the elections on Sunday , investors flinched yesterday in anticipation of a move by the markets to test the resolve of the new government which is expected to take power after the second round of voting this coming week-end . |
| 10 | Micheal Roper 's body will be flown back later this week for a funeral which is expected to take place on Saturday . |
| 11 | They include a new law requiring better insulation ( which is expected to reduce heating fuel consumption by 30 per cent by the year 2000 ) , restrictions on the use of fertiliser , and financial incentives for small businesses to adopt energy-efficient technologies . |
| 12 | We are , however , well prepared to benefit from a restoration of consumer confidence which is expected to follow resolution of the new administration 's policies . |
| 13 | Take the case of a hypothetical economy which had had no experience of inflation in its recent history so that the rate of inflation which was expected to take place over the foreseeable future was zero . |
| 14 | The move which was expected to take effect immediately , followed a warning by US Secretary of State James Baker , recently returned from a tour of Russia , Byelarus , Ukraine and Kazakhstan , that the former Soviet republics faced the threat of an imminent social explosion as a result of food shortages . |
| 15 | Both governments also re-emphasized the importance of the completion of the joint Yacyretá dam project [ see p. 34418 ] which was expected to begin operation in 1993 . |
| 16 | The commission , which was expected to begin work immediately , was charged with the organization and supervision of the country 's first pluralist presidential and legislative elections , scheduled for Nov. 15 and Dec. 13 respectively [ see p. 38802 ] . |
| 17 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 18 | You 're expected to have smash hits all the time in America . |
| 19 | How could she be expected to remain calm ? |
| 20 | That means there 'll be no treatment for 150 patients who were expecting to have routine operations over the next 5 weeks starting from Monday . |
| 21 | And she is expected to accelerate restructuring . |
| 22 | Eddie Gilfoyle is accused of murdering his wife Paula a fortnight before she was expected to give birth to their first child . |
| 23 | In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers . |
| 24 | They are expected to halve pollution caused by large commercial vehicles , bringing them into line with regulations governing car exhaust emissions . |
| 25 | They are expected to come word perfect and to research their part , however tiny . |
| 26 | Patients were excluded from the study if they were pregnant or lactating , if they were expecting to undergo surgery , or if they had a history of concurrent gastric ulceration , renal insufficiency , alcoholism ( pure ethanol intake greater than 100 ml/day ( women ) or 120 ml/day ( men ) , or behaviour consistent with alcohol abuse ) , drug abuse , or language difficulties . |
| 27 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 28 | It was found that when the experimenter expected subjects to infer success , they fulfilled the expectation , as they did when they were expected to infer failure . |
| 29 | It is expected to go beta test in March next year . |
| 30 | It is expected to go beta in March next year . |