Example sentences of "be expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I was n't in Belfast for the second leg but from what I saw on television they gave Tbilisi a lot of problems and that 's what we are expecting next week . |
| 32 | If you are expecting thousands of entries the format will need to be such that it is easy to eliminate incorrect entries . |
| 33 | Many young people coming into industry and commerce have a basic knowledge of marketing techniques and employers are expecting more of their marketing people . |
| 34 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
| 35 | Esau can not have been expecting such remorse , such willingness to make amends from Jacob . |
| 36 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 37 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 38 | Until now , the organisers had been expecting 15,000 participants ( 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials ) , and the Olympic village was constructed with this in mind . |
| 39 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 40 | France has been expecting heavy snow all week to 1200m … and still waits . |
| 41 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 42 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 43 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 44 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 45 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 46 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 47 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 48 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 49 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 50 | However , the City had been expecting bad figures and the shares rose 15p to 239p . |
| 51 | Mr Cattell said : ‘ We had been expecting bad news but had no idea where the axe would fall . |
| 52 | In any real case a variation of several hundred from the predicted value would be expected due to chance alone , while predictions based on the two methods do not differ by as much as one record in any file examined by the author . |
| 53 | Pavlov ( 1927 ) expressed the view that the OR evoked by a novel stimulus constituted an ‘ obstacle ’ to conditioning ; and indeed , if conditioning is seen as a process in which the OR comes to be replaced by the CR , it might be expected that pre-exposure to the CS would facilitate this process . |
| 54 | In contrast to the Sahel zone which is classified as semi-arid , Kuwait is arid ( Desertification Map of the World , FAO/Unesco 1977 ) so it is to be expected that desertification is a prominent problem and a major agent of environmental change . |
| 55 | It was only to be expected that sooner or later the Collector 's sense of duty would reassert itself . |
| 56 | It is to be expected that nature will surprise us ; what was significant about Forbes ' work was that he was a pioneer in studying the distribution of marine organisms , finding analogies between going deeper into the sea and going higher on land . |
| 57 | It was to be expected that resistance would begin here too . |
| 58 | As is to be expected such loans are liquid and generate income . |
| 59 | In a comparatively small health district such as West Cumbria ( 137000 population ) five to six deaths from asthma would be expected each year . |
| 60 | As might be expected young disabled people entering the adult world of employment , housing and social life face even greater problems than their peer group . |