Example sentences of "[pron] [be] expect [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was expecting to see rows and rows of beds , but it was n't like that . |
| 2 | And you know I was expecting to share Water Gypsy with Fenella . ’ |
| 3 | As a woman , I was expecting to have difficulties . |
| 4 | ‘ I was expecting to have dinner with a client this evening , but the appointment has been unexpectedly cancelled . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 7 | The nature of those replies , which are expected to include details of the tax matters , will determine whether the committee decides to ask the National Audit Office to re-open its investigation of the sale , and whether it is necessary to summon Lord Young . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Featuring in this sale of timepieces is a Charles II olivewood oyster and parquetry longcase clock from the workshop of Joseph Knibb , which is expected to realize £50–70,000 ( $90–125,000 ) . |
| 12 | Among the contemporary and modern prints on auction will be a coloured woodcut , entitled ‘ Mondschein ’ , by Edvard Munch , which is expected to realize £60–80,000 ( $100–140,000 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Micheal Roper 's body will be flown back later this week for a funeral which is expected to take place on Saturday . |
| 16 | It will be offered at a price of $70million-plus into a booming sector of the market for civil aircraft , which is expected to generate $110billion of sales by the year 2005 . |
| 17 | The move reflects the importance of the European market , which is expected to generate 40% of the Palo Alto company 's 1993 revenues . |
| 18 | The move reflects the importance of the European market , which is expected to generate 40% of the Palo Alto company 's 1993 revenues . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The undoubted feature of this sale of tribal art is a hitherto unrecorded Rarotonga Staff God , which is expected to fetch £200–300,000 ( $350–530,000 ) . |
| 21 | A mid-range RS/6000 which is expected to follow Vulcan in April 1993 is being touted as Trailblazer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | BNF is currently the world 's only supplier of fuel for AGRs , and Scottish Nuclear , which is expected to make profits of around £28 million this year from supplying electricity to ScottishPower and Scottish Hydro-Electric , is considering putting up the money to build the necessary fuel production facilities if its latest move comes to anything . |
| 24 | It is one of 30 prizes in a raffle backed by local businesses which is expected to raise £3,000 . |
| 25 | Drivers on the French express railway , the RER , which is expected to bring visitors to the site from central Paris are also threatening to strike on Sunday , when the park opens , because of the demands on them to cope with extra passenger traffic . |
| 26 | Among the rugs is one of only four known Esari prayer rugs from the first half of the nineteenth century , which is expected to bring £6–8,000 ( $10–14,000 ) . |
| 27 | The new building , which is expected to cost £1.25m , will double St Colmcille 's seating capacity to 550 . |
| 28 | So far says William Luers , business leaders have become more receptive to the arts as a component of economic development : the New York Partnership , a business organization , is participating in the Port Authority study , which is expected to cost $650,000 . |
| 29 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 30 | 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 . |