Example sentences of "[be] expect [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Road works : Serious traffic delays are expected for four weeks while British Gas carries out excavations of the A59 at Rice Lane , near Walton Hospital , Liverpool . |
| 2 | DELAYS are expected for four weeks on the northbound carriageway of the M74 in Lanarkshire between junctions 7 , for Larkhall , and 6 , Motherwell . |
| 3 | No results , however , are expected for some time ; and in any case , Whitehall expenditure reviews are notorious for failing to deliver anything of significance . |
| 4 | Some liquid bowel movements are expected after many types of intestinal perfusion studies and in most of the subjects in this study liquid bowel movements had stopped after 24 hours . |
| 5 | Antineutrons are expected by some particle physicists , who believe on theoretical grounds that neutrons could change into antineutrons on their way from the Sun to the Earth . |
| 6 | More arrests are expected in other areas of Northern Ireland as investigations continue into collusion between security force personnel and loyalist paramilitary groups . |
| 7 | Results are expected in mid August . |
| 8 | Redundancies are expected in large numbers , particularly from medium-sized firms . |
| 9 | This is an area where rapid and big gains are expected in several fields : diagnosing by cheap and standard reagents based upon immunological methods ( eg monoclonal antibodies ) for viral and malignant diseases ; new methods of vaccine production ; the production of genetically engineered organisms to produce human hormones and interferon . |
| 10 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 11 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 12 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 13 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 14 | Perhaps part of the problem is that far too much has been expected of positivist criminology or , alternatively , positivist criminologists have been responsible for fostering too grandiose expectations . |
| 15 | The agreements , particularly that on the reunion of dispersed families , had not been expected by political commentators , but were seen as an important contribution towards providing some fresh momentum for the Premiers ' talks which , after the dramatic progress of December 1991 , had failed to make much progress in succeeding months . |
| 16 | Although the tax cuts were lower than many commentators had predicted , Lamont forecast a higher public-sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) for both the 1991-92 and 1992-93 financial years than had been expected by financial analysts . |
| 17 | A spokesman for Dowty 's says the work had been expected by Dowty landing gear ; and so it wo n't affect the request for workers to take a pay freeze . |
| 18 | The actual local air traffic will be compared with the level which would have been expected by natural growth as predicted by a successful Federal Aviation Administration model . |
| 19 | Little problem had been expected from that workforce : it was young , unorganized and naive . |
| 20 | Certainly in the matter of military aid , as the working party concluded , the US ( without sending troops ) was in a position to make a unique contribution : but even more positive results might have been expected from economic assistance . |
| 21 | Both of the hypertonic ORS contained higher glucose concentrations and higher water obsorption might have been expected from these solutions because of a greater stimulatory effect on active glucose transport . |
| 22 | All we are expecting at this stage is modest growth in this half year . |
| 23 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 25 | Moody and high-strung though Anne was by nature , the girls ' brief quarrels were no more than might be expected between any siblings . |
| 26 | And , as is often the case in the media , literary texts have the habit of not turning out to mean what might be expected at first sight . |
| 27 | Speedy success was essential , since records gathered over the previous 80 years showed that at best only three weeks of rain-free weather could be expected at that time of the year . |
| 28 | More problematically , open market areas need not be expected at all sites , because temporary stalls or even trestle tables could have been erected in side-streets , as in some modern towns today . |
| 29 | Isolation , rejection , dishonour and disrespect might be expected at different times . |
| 30 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |