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

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1 Men can have one dark suit and wear it all day and no one will even notice , but women are expected to have the right clothes for lunch and afternoon tea and working in and then have some stunning outfit for evening .
2 New books and dictionaries are expected to contain the new spellings , while Proust , Racine and the rest will gradually be re-edited so as to make them conform .
3 Mr Yeltsin , who in normal circumstances might have been expected to restrain the Russian nationalists , is fighting for political survival against a Congress of People 's Deputies highly critical of his economic reforms .
4 Since private shareholders can not be expected to subsidize the wider goals of society as a whole , public ownership may then be inevitable .
5 Since this experimental programme included greater cooperation with the village practitioners , it would be expected to reverse the antagonistic attitudes described above .
6 Unlike the IBA , however , the ITC will not be responsible for broadcasting television programmes , and it will be expected to enforce the statutory duties by financial penalties imposed on offending television companies .
7 In particular , criminal statistics only show what police forces record , and the police clearly can not be expected to record the numerous offences which they do not know about .
8 The Post Office Guide will give details of the postal services , and of course the receptionist will be expected to know the local hairdressers , doctors , dentists , shops , restaurants , bars and clubs .
9 Nevertheless , the Labour Party is being pressed to support AV , because in a British election it would be expected to help the Liberal Democrats at the expense of the Conservatives .
10 At any given moment most such bands can be expected to contain no incestuous members .
11 Some students felt they had been rather hard pressed in relation to their knowledge of chemistry , but Coleman rightly said that a properly educated gentleman could be expected to understand the general principles and applications of chemical science .
12 The centre would be expected to offer an appropriate studies advisory service as well as guidance and counselling , and it is strongly recommended that specialist travel staff are involved in the student recruitment process .
13 In addition they will be expected to encourage the young participants , aged 17 to 25 , to create a record of their own experiences through a series of workshops .
14 It is the way Biggs fights and he can be expected to steal the early rounds .
15 They can not be expected to consider the inflationary consequences of their commercial activities .
16 In response to this first reason , it should be noted that major UK companies with involvement in European markets already have to maintain sophisticated compliance programmes with respect to EC Article 86 : parallel UK legislation might , therefore , be expected to reduce the total costs of compliance for these companies as it would cut out some duplication .
17 Instructors were expected to attend an instructional techniques course since the skill to instruct well was every bit as important as the craft skill .
18 They were expected to attend the urban celebrations of the great festivals and took part in the pageantry and the festivities .
19 In addition , Labour is expected to promise the Liberal Democrats fair representation in a new House of Lords , and also in the European Parliament , with PR elections in both cases .
20 Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 .
21 The company also said that it will continue with its application to the Department of Trade and Industry to operate a ‘ personal communications network ’ , which is expected to present the same opportunities in the next decade as cellular mobile radio is doing in this .
22 Eurotunnel is expected to make a new rights issue next year and will presumably negotiate new loans on the strength of recently amended forecasts which show a sharp rise in revenue after 2003 .
23 Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month .
24 A running board was the information given to the driver of what , where he was expected to run , what time he was expected to leave the various termini .
25 Indeed , socialism was expected to release the dynamic qualities of the British people that would create the wealth needed to sustain standards of living and world power .
26 Buster Watson was expected to win the 100 metres , but I came through and clocked 10.4 seconds for a personal best and a county record , which still stands .
27 Once primary standards were attained , the state was expected to attain the secondary standards ‘ within a reasonable time ’ .
28 The increasing wind was expected to help the smaller boats , and the leaders for most of the race may be deposed when the handicaps are computed .
29 It 's also telling people it was expecting to have an installed Windows 3.1 base of more than 8m systems at the end of ‘ 92 .
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