Example sentences of "expected [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEVERE snow falls and high winds are expected to hit substantial parts of northern Scotland , Stonehaven and Drumochter northwards , for up to 24 hours from tonight , forecasters say . |
| 2 | The first photographs required long exposures , and animals can not be expected to sit still as long as Victorian adults did ; but by the last quarter of the nineteenth century fast exposures were possible . |
| 3 | Antislavery success , it was assumed , would be a large step towards creating a proper moral order in the world and from that could be expected to flow greater social and political harmony . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I can not be expected to monitor these statements . |
| 6 | Psychogenic reactions on food testing ( see p 148 ) can occur just as easily in children as in adults , and if knows he is expected to go wild when he tries milk he may well oblige . |
| 7 | To Lan 's astonishment her father signalled for her to approach the altar next ; as she was the youngest she had expected to go last , but her father was clearly singling Kim out for special treatment by allowing her to precede him . |
| 8 | City of London Telecommunications — or COLT — has already started construction of the network , which is expected to go on-line towards the end of the year . |
| 9 | At St Bartholomew 's Hospital , 75 beds have closed ; Parkside Health Authority has closed a 20-bed ward it had just re-opened to try to tackle waiting lists ; and proposals to close some beds at the London Hospital are expected to go next week to Tower Hamlets Health Authority , which faces a £1.3m overspend . |
| 10 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Top End 2.0 is expected to support other non-NCR platform-specific features a la its recent support for Microsoft Corp Windows Dynamic Link Libraries and add enhanced application management . |
| 14 | DBMS are therefore expected to support multiple linked lists if they adopt the list processing method of file organisation . |
| 15 | The biological resources that just supported small nomadic populations at a neolithic level of culture can not be expected to support larger populations at southern standards of living . |
| 16 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Salvage and repair work and pumping are expected to continue all day , but more rain is forecast for tonight . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And the trend is expected to continue this year . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The first tranche of these sanctions , affecting imports worth US$300,000,000 , was due to take effect on Dec. 5 and was expected to affect French wine and food products , since the USA held France responsible for the deadlock . |
| 23 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Italy will lose about 750 or 6% , as will other southern Europe countries ; the UK is expected to lose 1,000 or 7% . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The dot location task , which involves predominantly the right hemisphere , was expected to remain unaffected . |
| 28 | As a consequence of the belief in the unbalanced ratio , demographers advocated the long-term necessity of keeping older people in the work-force , since the birth-rate was expected to remain low despite a wartime upturn . |
| 29 | Well low pollen count over the weekend , the forecast expected to remain low . |
| 30 | Unemployment in the OECD countries was expected to remain stable at an average of 6.5 per cent in 1990 despite a slowdown in growth . |