Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what of the farmers expected to carry out the work in a time of recession . |
| 2 | Kohl party expected to lose again |
| 3 | Yes , thought Berdichev ; but I 'm the last person you expected to see up here today . |
| 4 | With the Falklands War in 1982 — conventional warfare such as no one expected to see again — there surfaced memories that had never been buried very deep . |
| 5 | It was the sort of set Haute Epoque specialist dealers said they never expected to see again in their lifetimes . |
| 6 | Zelah seemed to know everybody and the Wycliffes were introduced to a bewildering variety of people whom they never expected to see again . |
| 7 | Mr Carey , 46 , a distinguished BBC journalist for 23 years , said he expected to liaise constantly with broadcasters on what footage they required . |
| 8 | Muggers who decided to phase out mugging by 1993 could hardly expect to be let off , yet the UK expected to go on breaking the law with impunity . |
| 9 | Tomorrow 's Lingfield Flat all-weather meeting is the only card expected to go ahead before Friday . |
| 10 | And Oriel College will hold its a own memorial service … after the funeral … expected to go ahead early next week . |
| 11 | But no in those days if you had children er young children at any rate you , you , you never expected to go out to work at all . |
| 12 | Let me go to er where I expected to go now to John the County Planning Officer . |
| 13 | Twenty five years later , Bevan expressed his hostility to the EEC in terms redolent with the memory of 1930 : ‘ Are we now expected to go back almost a century , reject socialism , and clasp free trade to our bosom as though it were the only solution of our social evils ? ’ |
| 14 | After you 'd had this erm punishment ere you expected to go back to your lessons straight away , how long did it hurt , did your hands |
| 15 | Why was it every year ended sort of optimistically and every year we expected to go back up ? |
| 16 | The meetings of the Association helped both to raise the consciousness of scientists and also to enforce some specialization : members expected to attend only one of the sections . |
| 17 | IN THE HOME , as in industry , it is overwhelmingly men who are the designers and repairers of machines , while women are the operators , expected to perform neatly and swiftly on typewriters , sewing machines and the rest , but not to understand how they work . |
| 18 | Analysts are forecasting that Zeneca will make taxable profits of about £500 million in the current year , with ICI expected to come in at around £250 million . |
| 19 | The last person I expected to come across was you . ’ |
| 20 | On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 . |
| 21 | Julian Wood , a partner with liquidators Sterling Ford , said there are ‘ significant deficiencies ’ with losses expected to total more than £200,000 . |
| 22 | The council 's working party on grants to cultural organisations took no decision on payments expected to total more than £2 million in 1993-94 . |
| 23 | But if as soon as the beam starts its journey I accelerate , then … by the time the beam arrives at the point where it expected to meet up with me … why , of course ! |
| 24 | The recession , which we expected to fade away through the year , has hit us full on , and as I write there is little sign of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel . |
| 25 | that said , it 's a must-see revival , but expect to enjoy more with your eyes than with your ears . |
| 26 | The government consistently denied rumours of an early poll , claiming that no parliamentary elections would be held before the presidential contest due in April 1991 , although local elections at sub-district level were expected to go ahead in May 1990 , after the success of similar elections in the Chittagong Hill Tracts on June 25 , 1989 ( see p. 36736 ) . |
| 27 | The deal is expected to go through in March after structural checks are complete . |
| 28 | Now it is not expected to go on much beyond spring of next year . |
| 29 | Would the demand for securities be low if their price was high , but was expected to go on rising ? |
| 30 | It 's expected to go on for up to six weeks . |