Example sentences of "[adv] expect [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's will sell another Picasso on 15 November — Au Lapin Agile , from the Pink period — which is widely expected to break the previous price records . |
| 2 | Political sources said that Mitterrand loyalists were already in touch with Gaullist Edouard Balladur , 63 , widely expected to head the next government , to discuss the handover from the present prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy . |
| 3 | A seller would normally expect to receive the current market value of the units within fourteen days . |
| 4 | A trade unionism that is paralysed by an obsession with parliamentary lobbying and television training for general secretaries can scarcely expect to win the wholehearted support even of its own members , let alone women engaged in domestic labour , part-time workers or the unemployed . |
| 5 | He looked backwards expecting to see the rear gunner running up the fuselage to report that his gun had jammed . |
| 6 | The Labour Party was still expected to take the leading part , an agitation being started for an emergency Labour Conference to discuss the Alliance . |
| 7 | Extra revenue was to come from higher telephone and unemployment insurance charges , but the cost of unification was still expected to increase the public-sector deficit above the DM140,000 million ( approximately US$94 , 580 million ) projected in December 1990 [ see p. 37904 ; for end-January rise in Federal Bank discount rate see p. 37978 ] . |
| 8 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 9 | Most new pupils in the First Year can usually expect to join the Second Orchestra or Wind Band , provided they are of a reasonable standard . |
| 10 | This spring , it is also expected to win the third-party policy administration contract for Leeds Life , should Leeds Permanent Building Society decide to set up its own life assurance operation . |
| 11 | Not only will the Yorkshireman spend much of his time getting to know his charges , he also expects to play the odd game or two and his experience should prove invaluable . |
| 12 | ATHENS — The Greek President , Christos Sartzetakis , is today expected to name the Supreme Court President , Yannis Grivas , as Premier of a caretaker government until elections on 5 November , writes Peter Thompson . |
| 13 | While it remains ( in theory at least ) the prerogative of each agency to decide whether to co-operate with the overall plan , they are at least expected to notify the key worker if they intend to deviate from what has been agreed . |
| 14 | Poor Leopold at home was clearly pining for his son : in a touching letter he confessed that he felt sad at times , being unable to hear Wolfgang playing the piano and violin , and each time he approached his home he half expected to hear the familiar sound of his son 's fiddle . |