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

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1 The sergeant has denied assault , in a trial that 's expected to last five days .
2 Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months .
3 The appeal will take place in Stockton Town Hall on Tuesday , July 21 , at 10am and is expected to last one day .
4 The European Remote Sensing Satellite , ERS-1 , cost £500 million and is expected to spend three years observing the Earth from space .
5 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 .
6 Well 204/20–1 was spudded by the drilling rig Ocean Valiant on September 14 and is expected to take 35 days .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough .
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