Example sentences of "[be] expect [verb] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Dr Stroud and Sir Ranulph are expected to give more details about their experiences at a London news conference today . |
2 | In addition they are expected to spend more time on Art and Design History and Theory and on Management and Administration . |
3 | Profits are expected to show little change from last year 's Pounds 94m . |
4 | Older people are expected to play little part in the running of the group , beyond perhaps a simple process of consultation . |
5 | What amazes me is that young families on income support can get almost any accompanying benefit , yet I am expected to meet these bills in full . |
6 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
7 | Patients refused admission can not be expected to take much comfort from this explanation of their plight . |
8 | Furthermore , graduates can be expected to make fewer demands on the public purse in later life . |
9 | However , the builder may be expected to make some contribution towards travelling time and costs where he has failed to obtain suitable sub-contract labour within the vicinity of the site and a subcontractor is requested to travel an excessive distance . |
10 | He argued that , on the one hand , reproduction is mainly practised by peasants and others of low rank , who could hardly be expected to show much interest in whether they produced male or female children . |
11 | However , you would be expected to show some knowledge of , and interest in the affairs of the authority in question and of the issues affecting local government generally . |
12 | Certainly , the habituation process described in Chapter 2 will be engaged during the first stage of a latent inhibition experiment and might be expected to play some part in determining the outcome . |
13 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |
14 | A local authority would be expected to offer these services before seeking an order unless it had clear evidence that the parents would be unwilling or incapable of making use of them . |
15 | Later on in life those same children may be expected to regard that Bible with such reverence , that the placing of a hand on a copy of it automatically makes their obligation to tell the truth more compelling . |
16 | Everyone pretended to ignore the reaction of the surveyors to the fact that the senior administrative member of Rostov 's staff was a member of a race which could be expected to have little respect for the Imperial establishment . |
17 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
18 | The second was that the son ‘ could be expected to have some influence over his elderly parents , and that is something of which the plaintiffs … should have been aware . ’ |
19 | It could be argued that the requirement of regularity is unduly restrictive and reflects the rationale of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , namely , the additional duties imposed on suppliers should only fall on those who can , because of the regularity of their dealings , be expected to have some competence in relation to the goods supplied . |
20 | This module would , Minsky suggests , alone have access to the model ( again possibly false , of course ) of how it itself related to all the other , lower , modules , and it might be expected to have some property of the type we refer to as consciousness or self-consciousness . |
21 | There are five specific reasons for not calling a witness given in r25 — namely , that the witness is dead or beyond the seas or unfit by reason of bodily or mental condition to attend as a witness or that , despite the exercise of reasonable diligence , it has not been possible to identify or find him or that he can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection of matters relevant to the accuracy or otherwise of the statement . |
22 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
23 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
24 | For example , both student teachers and student nurses are being expected to spend more time in the professional setting , and are being encouraged to appraise their own actions and to be explicit and articulate about what they are doing and why . |
25 | Promotional support is expected to add another £1.5m to the launch budget . |
26 | This is hardly surprising since display technology is expected to dominate many sectors of the electronics industry , both industrial and consumer . |
27 | She is expected to make many changes to the 200-year-old building . |
28 | Completion of the Single European Market is expected to increase this form of labour mobility by removing legal and professional qualification barriers . |
29 | FIRED by a 20 per cent surge in oil production , the Scottish economy is expected to grow this year by more than three times the UK average , according to a survey published today by the Stirling-based Mackay Consultants . |
30 | Indeed , Inmos has already shipped 1m Transputers and is expecting to double this number over the next year . |