Example sentences of "expected [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime .
2 I can not be expected to monitor these statements .
3 As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Salvage and repair work and pumping are expected to continue all day , but more rain is forecast for tonight .
7 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 .
8 And the trend is expected to continue this year .
9 The ban , initiated by the State Department and announced on 11 March by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service , is expected to affect fewer than 500 of the approximately 3000 Libyan students at American universities , and only those studying the proscribed subjects .
10 In our work , however , the carbon-bearing granulite samples have a higher porosity ( Table 1 ) and friable nature , and would be expected to lose much of their porosity , with associated loss of conductivity , when even small pressures are applied .
11 Some 200,000 members were expected to lose most of their savings in what was described as the worst collapse of a deposit-taking institution in Australia since 1990 .
12 Tools are expected to include all those currently working with Allbase/SQL , such as those from Channel Computing Inc , Cognos Inc , Gupta Corp , Information Builders Inc , Ingres Corp , JYACC Inc , Powersoft Inc , Speedware Corp , Trifox Inc , Uniface Corp and Unify Corp .
13 This batch is expected to include all the main hospitals in Edinburgh , Glasgow , Lanarkshire and Central region .
14 If this was the case new reports would be expected to include fewer recent infections and the average age of people with newly diagnosed HIV infection and the proportion symptomatic at the time of the HIV-1 test would rise .
15 This is to be expected given that most of the initial investors were actively involved in the regional economy and anticipated wider gains .
16 There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric .
17 Admittedly the Lord Treasurers were , until the appointment of Paulet in 1552 , unqualified noblemen ; but they were not usually expected to perform any serious duties .
18 All told , BT had expected to invest some $100m in the three ventures .
19 The rest of continental Europe is not expected to see any significant growth during the year .
20 Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines .
21 If so , the conductivity of the rock at high pressures would be expected to mirror that of carbon .
22 A NEW service which is expected to encourage more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday .
23 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 .
24 A reconvened multi-party constitutional conference early next month is expected to leap these hurdles quickly .
25 But at your age you know so many words you could n't really be expected to spell all of them and you 're you 're thinking Oh whatever I do I every word I write down is wrong .
26 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 .
27 Again , now that he is a man he is expected to observe those admittedly very minimal standards of decency which apply to excretion ( for instance , not urinating on someone 's feet when you are talking to them ) , and so to this very limited extent we can speak of initiation being like toilet-training .
28 ‘ Of course , Yeats could n't have been expected to know that . ’
29 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 .
30 She prevaricated , wanting the story verified or denied before sharing it with him , but he could n't be expected to know that .
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