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

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1 They are not expected to win any seats .
2 The latest talks , which began with a meeting planned between the flight attendants union and management on Wednesday to discuss a new labour contract are not expected to produce firm proposals and the next bid for United Airlines may not get off the ground until well into 1990 .
3 While this is to some extent true , it does not mean that workers in small firms are not expected to show family-style loyalties .
4 Clerks are also expected to assist unrepresented parties with advice on the procedure adopted in the tribunals .
5 They are now expecting to build 40,000 houses a year by the mid-90s . ’
6 The players are n't expecting to become chart-topping superstars overnight , but their manager … who once had a hit himself … thinks the song will be good for team spirit .
7 Secondary institutions were also expected to assist primary ones in fulfilling their essential tasks .
8 Planetary interiors are ultimately expected to experience declining temperatures , and there is some fairly direct evidence that to some extent this has already occurred in Mercury .
9 ( 139b ) … reflected solar radiation is not expected to cause sizable errors in the measurements of planetary radiation .
10 The new laboratory will employ six to 10 people in an area of science that is not expected to produce marketable results for five to 10 years .
11 ‘ The screen version is already expected to break box-office records .
12 She is also expected to join other royals at the church service on Christmas Day .
13 Jordan is now expected to press Asian governments to act more vigorously to help repatriate their nationals , meanwhile reports that Iran is willing to open its border with Iraq to refugees , have been greeted with relief here , although it 's still not clear whether the Baghdad authorities will cooperate with this .
14 Amdahl is now expected to deliver two lines of multiprocessing Sparc systems which it will announce later this year .
15 European economic integration was widely expected to bring enormous benefits since an extensive single trading area ( such as existed in America ) might allow larger-scale industrial production and greater efficiency .
16 Maryland was organized as a late and formal version of the feudal system , the Virginian way of life was always expected to reflect some memories of the heirs of the Elizabethan gentlemen and seadogs who had launched it , and Massachusetts and the other New England colonies that emerged from it retained a moral earnestness that sometimes survived the loss of the faith that had initially inspired the earnestness .
17 Appalled by the Flight 103 disaster , perhaps more than most as a result of his recent experiences , but still entirely unaware of any possible connection between his Cyprus assignment and the bombing , Coleman appeared with Tom Brokaw on NBC 's ‘ Nightly News ’ without realizing that , inactive or not , he was still expected to clear such engagements first with the DIA .
18 The hearing , which was originally expected to last six weeks , became one of the world 's longest medical disciplinary proceedings , with McBride himself spending nearly seven weeks under cross-examination .
19 it has , however , been characterized throughout by limited resources and was never expected to produce detailed results , but rather to identify areas which should be investigated further .
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