Example sentences of "expect [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to be expected given that most of the initial investors were actively involved in the regional economy and anticipated wider gains . |
| 2 | If so , the conductivity of the rock at high pressures would be expected to mirror that of carbon . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , Yeats could n't have been expected to know that . ’ |
| 4 | She was right , as it happens , but Scarlet , not being clairvoyant , could n't be expected to know that and resigned herself to yet another evening which would not be wholly enjoyable even had she not been going to the theatre . |
| 5 | She prevaricated , wanting the story verified or denied before sharing it with him , but he could n't be expected to know that . |
| 6 | I can hardly be expected to know that , can I ? |
| 7 | The related business person 's turnover will be under the current registration threshold if ( broadly ) it is not over £36,600 in any of the last 12 calendar months and is not reasonably expected to exceed that amount in the next 30 days from any time ( VAT Act 1983 , Sch 1 , para 1(1) ) . |
| 8 | The effects of this move were that in 1990 Hungary 's trade with the European Communities ( EC ) was expected to exceed that with Hungary 's COMECON partners for the first time . |
| 9 | However , in the medium-term between 1994 and 1997 , GDP growth in the UK was expected to exceed that in Scotland by up to 0.2 per cent . |
| 10 | We expect to discuss that and other matters with the new secretary general when he visits London I hope , next month . |
| 11 | Few could be expected to assume that eccentricity . |
| 12 | To attempt defection would be to sign their death warrants , and no man could be expected to do that . |
| 13 | But as anarchy increases , so we will be expected to use that influence . |
| 14 | I think if we knew what those heart and lung transplants cost , people would be up in arms that the National Health Service is being expected to fund that . |
| 15 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every director of a building society to satisfy himself that the arrangements made for assessing the adequacy of the security for any advance to be fully secured on land which is to be made by the society are such as may reasonably be expected to ensure that — ( a ) an assessment will be made on the occasion of each advance whether or not any previous assessment was made with a view to further advances or re-advances ; ( b ) each assessment will be made by a person holding office in or employed by the society who is competent to make the assessment and is not disqualified under this section from making it ; ( c ) each person making the assessment will have furnished to him a written report on the value of the land and any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value , and is not disqualified under this section from making a report on , the land in question ; but the arrangements need not require each report to be made with a view to a particular assessment so long as it is adequate for the purpose of making the assessment . |
| 16 | The record is ten days , but not even the trimarans expect to match that this year . |
| 17 | The anglers were not expected to match that catch rate , as the most effective early season methods were not permitted by the rules , but the winners more than doubled it . |
| 18 | Mr Clinton was expected to unveil that strategy at the summit . |
| 19 | The Office of Fair Trading is now expected to refer that question to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) . |
| 20 | We expect to repeat that success . |
| 21 | You will probably be relieved to hear that you 're not expected to memorize that table and to regurgitate it in the exam . |
| 22 | As in Article 85 an illustrative list of prohibited practices is to be published , which will include such specific practices as price fixing or any other practices which may be expected to have that effect . |
| 23 | Later on in life those same children may be expected to regard that Bible with such reverence , that the placing of a hand on a copy of it automatically makes their obligation to tell the truth more compelling . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm retiring , ’ Fox said , realising that she had n't expected to say that . |
| 25 | She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman . |
| 26 | This is expected to show that appropriate parts of the monies passed to the schools from local authorities have been spent on books . |
| 27 | Results can be analysed by reference to the total number of grains overlying the chromosomes in all the mitotic cells scored , the total number of grains overlying each individual chromosome and the significance of the latter in relation to the number expected to overlie that chromosome assuming that grains are randomly distributed per unit length of chromosome . |
| 28 | The increase is slightly less in the case of beverages , which is what one would expect given that wine stocks could service two establishments more easily than food ones . |
| 29 | Er , the position of the British government is this , that it regrets er the inconvenience and the expense , er it would like to see a very sensible resolution but it knows that there will only be a resolution as I know the honourable gentleman knows by unanimity and it does not expect to see that unanimity in the future though it will work for it . |
| 30 | If the above argument is correct one might expect to find that , in other situations where the division of labour is less fixed , there would be more diverse patterns of kin support across gender lines . |