Example sentences of "[pron] be expect [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was expecting to have dinner with a client this evening , but the appointment has been unexpectedly cancelled . ’ |
| 2 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 3 | The nature of those replies , which are expected to include details of the tax matters , will determine whether the committee decides to ask the National Audit Office to re-open its investigation of the sale , and whether it is necessary to summon Lord Young . |
| 4 | The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years . |
| 5 | Souter also refused to reveal his views , stating that he would refrain from commenting on any judicial issues prior to his confirmation hearings which were expected to take place in September 1990 . |
| 6 | Annex B approval was received in April 1992 for the development of the Caister gas field [ LASMO 21 per cent ] which is expected to commence production before the end of 1993 . |
| 7 | And despite the even bigger swing to the right-wing coalition in the first round of the elections on Sunday , investors flinched yesterday in anticipation of a move by the markets to test the resolve of the new government which is expected to take power after the second round of voting this coming week-end . |
| 8 | Micheal Roper 's body will be flown back later this week for a funeral which is expected to take place on Saturday . |
| 9 | It will be offered at a price of $70million-plus into a booming sector of the market for civil aircraft , which is expected to generate $110billion of sales by the year 2005 . |
| 10 | The move reflects the importance of the European market , which is expected to generate 40% of the Palo Alto company 's 1993 revenues . |
| 11 | The move reflects the importance of the European market , which is expected to generate 40% of the Palo Alto company 's 1993 revenues . |
| 12 | A mid-range RS/6000 which is expected to follow Vulcan in April 1993 is being touted as Trailblazer . |
| 13 | We are , however , well prepared to benefit from a restoration of consumer confidence which is expected to follow resolution of the new administration 's policies . |
| 14 | BNF is currently the world 's only supplier of fuel for AGRs , and Scottish Nuclear , which is expected to make profits of around £28 million this year from supplying electricity to ScottishPower and Scottish Hydro-Electric , is considering putting up the money to build the necessary fuel production facilities if its latest move comes to anything . |
| 15 | Drivers on the French express railway , the RER , which is expected to bring visitors to the site from central Paris are also threatening to strike on Sunday , when the park opens , because of the demands on them to cope with extra passenger traffic . |
| 16 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 17 | Take the case of a hypothetical economy which had had no experience of inflation in its recent history so that the rate of inflation which was expected to take place over the foreseeable future was zero . |
| 18 | Fragments common to many strains of the AIDS virus had been identified and a candidate vaccine was being developed which was expected to produce antibodies against more than 80 per cent of these strains . |
| 19 | Both governments also re-emphasized the importance of the completion of the joint Yacyretá dam project [ see p. 34418 ] which was expected to begin operation in 1993 . |
| 20 | All fields must identify field representatives , elected by students from among themselves , who are expected to bring problems within a field to the attention of the Course administration . |
| 21 | If you are expecting to hear tracks from their ‘ Ptooff ’ or ‘ Disposable ’ classics here then be prepared to be mightily disappointed . |
| 22 | But if you 're expecting to import data from a PC , then first check the long list of unsupported 1-2-3 commands , each of which generates an error message on the Portfolio . |
| 23 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 24 | I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work . |
| 25 | Eddie Gilfoyle is accused of murdering his wife Paula a fortnight before she was expected to give birth to their first child . |
| 26 | In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers . |
| 27 | They are expected to announce changes to F1 regulations introduced by International Motor Sports Federation ( FISA ) president Max Mosley at an F1 Commission meeting two weeks ago . |
| 28 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 29 | Maynard , Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment Corp indicates that it is expecting to have conversations with friends at Hewlett-Packard Co in the next few weeks about its participation in the Common Open Software Environment . |
| 30 | It is expected to go beta in March next year . |