Example sentences of "[conj] [be] expect [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A depletion of transmitters is therefore likely to be associated with impaired performance and to render the organism more vulnerable to frustration , loss and other life stresses that are expected to increase adaptive demands .
2 The sergeant has denied assault , in a trial that 's expected to last five days .
3 The Congress on Feb. 25 , in a decision that was expected to boost domestic savings by US$1,000 million , approved reforms to the country 's pension and housing funds .
4 Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months .
5 US President Bill Clinton has dismissed the referendum as a ploy to buy time , and is expected to press reluctant Europeans for military action against Bosnia 's Serbs .
6 The European Remote Sensing Satellite , ERS-1 , cost £500 million and is expected to spend three years observing the Earth from space .
7 The Argus will leave with the helicopters on board next week and is expected to take seven days to reach the Croatian port of Split .
8 Well 204/20–1 was spudded by the drilling rig Ocean Valiant on September 14 and is expected to take 35 days .
9 The first European Design Automation Conference is scheduled for 7–10 Spetember at Hamburg 's Congress Center and is expected to attract 5,000 visitors : among those exhibiting are DEC , Harris , Sun , Cadence , Fujitsu and i-Logix .
10 MIDDLESBROUGH 'S annual ten kilometre road race will almost certainly be an event on its own this year and is expected to attract 700 runners .
11 President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December .
12 The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough .
13 Spanish and Portuguese membership came only after long talks , and was expected to put greater pressures on the Social and Regional Funds , as well as increasing the costs of the CAP .
14 In contrast to the homespun approach of Chiles , Martinez was believed to have amassed some $7,000,000 to spend on his November campaign , and was expected to use negative tactics .
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