Example sentences of "[be] expect [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salvage and repair work and pumping are expected to continue all day , but more rain is forecast for tonight . |
| 2 | The same number are expected to arrive this year . |
| 3 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 4 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 5 | In addition they are expected to spend more time on Art and Design History and Theory and on Management and Administration . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Custodians are expected to inform each other immediately when children are moved from one part of the country to another , and the child 's name should be immediately registered in the new locality , pending a case conference . |
| 8 | Where a service is provided for a child under 16 , the parents are expected to meet any charge . |
| 9 | No-one in the Liverpool dressing room is left in any doubt as to the standards they are expected to achieve each time they are selected . |
| 10 | Profits are expected to show little change from last year 's Pounds 94m . |
| 11 | Appeal courts are expected to show some mercy because the defendant has twice had to face the ordeal of being sentenced . |
| 12 | Older people are expected to play little part in the running of the group , beyond perhaps a simple process of consultation . |
| 13 | The Server 60 and Server 80 are expected to ship this summer , when UK pricing will be announced . |
| 14 | Mergers are usually disturbing to employees and managers alike , and a merger of nearly 600 undertakings might have been expected to create more pain than most . |
| 15 | Esther Breuer might well have been expected to approve this advice , with its implication that depth rather than breadth is of importance , and intimate knowledge of a corner more valuable than a sketchy acquaintance with the globe . |
| 16 | IBM and Sybase Inc have cooked up a co-development/co-marketing deal revolving around the RS/6000 that they 're expected to announce this week . |
| 17 | But as anarchy increases , so we will be expected to use that influence . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 19 | Market makers can aim to run only modest positions in any group of similar stocks or they can run large but offsetting positions , i.e. being long on certain stocks and short on others such that capital gains and losses can be expected to cancel each other out . |
| 20 | Patients refused admission can not be expected to take much comfort from this explanation of their plight . |
| 21 | Trade has been stimulated by the process of detente , and the moves towards ‘ democratisation ’ of the Eastern Bloc can be expected to continue this process . |
| 22 | Note that since the CRE sequence exhibits inversion symmetry , the conformation of the dodecamer would also be expected to respect this symmetry . |
| 23 | An acceptable formula will probably be expected to make each school 's ‘ budget share ’ depend mainly on the numbers of pupils in the school , but also to take into account such factors as the ages of the children , the subjects they are studying , and the numbers with special needs ; and also perhaps the levels of social advantage and disadvantage in the community the school serves . |
| 24 | However , the builder may be expected to make some contribution towards travelling time and costs where he has failed to obtain suitable sub-contract labour within the vicinity of the site and a subcontractor is requested to travel an excessive distance . |
| 25 | To be expected to relinquish this power , and give up some of the spoils to the likes of SARU , who had been at the forefront in demanding the non-participation of the Springboks in international competition since it was ‘ impossible to play normal sport in an abnormal society ’ , must , understandably , be a difficult to swallow . |
| 26 | You will be expected to keep this knowledge up to date , to make the time to look at studio representatives ' portfolios of illustrators , story board artists or photographers . |
| 27 | He argued that , on the one hand , reproduction is mainly practised by peasants and others of low rank , who could hardly be expected to show much interest in whether they produced male or female children . |
| 28 | However , you would be expected to show some knowledge of , and interest in the affairs of the authority in question and of the issues affecting local government generally . |
| 29 | On the other hand , ’ the flat menace in his voice silenced her indignant denial before it could be voiced , ‘ a woman in her twenties might reasonably be expected to show more intelligence . |
| 30 | GPs with their own budgets and District Health Authorities will be expected to place either block contracts for a defined range of services , or cost and volume contracts , for a certain number of cases , for most services . |