Example sentences of "[be] expect [to-vb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Secretary had told the Commons that 42,000 people left the colony this year , and 55,000 are expected to leave next year . |
| 2 | The same number are expected to arrive this year . |
| 3 | On the database side , Unify is currently waiting to see how object technology develops before it makes a move , but is already hard at work on object extensions to its tools , the first of which are expected to emerge next year . |
| 4 | Oil exports are expected to increase this year , but will soon fall back ; domestic consumption is soaring ( because the stuff is so cheap ) , and few new wells are being drilled in the forests . |
| 5 | ‘ If nitrate does , indirectly , cause cancer , it will be the long-term average that matters and the effect of any increase in cancer rates would be expected to take many years to become apparent … |
| 6 | Given that the decision of the Department of the Environment and of the Scottish and Welsh Offices will have huge implications for the levels of poll tax that people will be expected to pay next year , should we not have an early statement in the Chamber on those issues ? |
| 7 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 8 | And the trend is expected to continue this year . |
| 9 | The European Remote Sensing Satellite , ERS-1 , cost £500 million and is expected to spend three years observing the Earth from space . |
| 10 | The inquiry , ordered by bosses at Clwyd County Council , is expected to take another year . |
| 11 | Electronic Data Systems Corp has won a 10-year contract from Southland Corp to install as many as 4,000 automated teller machines in 7-11 stores across the US : installation will begin in June and the process is expected to take three years to complete and the General Motors Corp subsidiary will manage processing , administration , fulfillment and enhancement of the kit . |
| 12 | In response , the Lord Chancellor established a review of the financial conditions for legal aid in November 1989 , which is expected to take three years to complete its work . |
| 13 | Work is expected to take several years . |
| 14 | Now , after further lobbying by the Specialist Car Manufacturers Group , the self-regulatory body which Caterham founded ( Mr Nearn is its chairman ) , a secondary legislation amendment has been drawn up , and is expected to pass this year , which will allow Caterham to manufacture up to 500 fully-built cars a year , under a low volume manufacturer classification . |
| 15 | Lloyd 's is expected to announce this year losses for 1989 of between £1 billion and £1.6 billion though some market men fear the loss could rise to £2 billion . |
| 16 | Construction is expected to begin next year and the first experiments could be under way as early as 1998 . |
| 17 | Even so , the flow of new money into eastern Germany is expected to grow this year ( see box on previous page ) . |
| 18 | FIRED by a 20 per cent surge in oil production , the Scottish economy is expected to grow this year by more than three times the UK average , according to a survey published today by the Stirling-based Mackay Consultants . |
| 19 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 20 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 21 | As a Scot , I was expected to take New Year 's Day as leave rather than Christmas . |
| 22 | A reconstruction programme , calculated to cost at least US$10,000 million , was expected to take several years . |