Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am expected to do most of the work including taking care of him ( the mentally retarded boy ) which is very hard with all my school-work too . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As a Scot , I was expected to take New Year 's Day as leave rather than Christmas . |
| 4 | You are expected to take adequate steps to protect yourself . |
| 5 | Is it because you are expected to express good wishes or thanks , or because you are old and wise and expected to give advice , or because you are an extrovert and known for being humorous , because you are closely related to the other members of the family , or because you are a friend who has known the bride and groom for many years ? |
| 6 | As chairman you are expected to stay neutral , especially if you are the most senior person present . |
| 7 | Ah yes it could be that you 're expected to do thirty hours a week . |
| 8 | You soon realise that you 're expected to play straight man , but it 's hard to complain . |
| 9 | She is expected to place great emphasis on Britain 's contribution to controlling the hole in the ozone layer and global warming . |
| 10 | She is expected to make many changes to the 200-year-old building . |
| 11 | She found , however , that once she had been formally initiated into the movement , she was expected to spend all her time with other female devotees and could no longer speak to , let alone question , the leaders ( who were all male ) . |
| 12 | She confirmed that she had resigned because she was expected to work five days a week instead of the three initially agreed . |
| 13 | He wore a pleased but modest look and Lili looked as though she knew she was expected to appear proud . |
| 14 | Two new stores have opened already and we are expecting to achieve stronger results in all area . |
| 15 | We are expected to make seasonal adjustments to change our clothes , make-up and even our bodies in accordance with fashion . |
| 16 | With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project . |
| 17 | You 're getting innocent people , men and women killed , children killed and we 're expected to accept this . |
| 18 | This ‘ Doyler ’ fellow talks about the break-up of his marriage as though we 're expected to feel sorry for him , rather than cracking open a jerobaum of Bollinger , and saying ‘ you did the right thing there , my man . |
| 19 | Out on the road , we were expected to have enough basic journalistic training and common-sense to ask the right questions . |
| 20 | We were expected to have enough initiative to overcome the physical problems , maybe when the streets were under water or covered in snow , to get to our appointment on time . |
| 21 | Talk by lecturers of students developing their critical abilities is just cant when students are obliged to adopt atomistic and surface approaches just to assimilate and reproduce the course content , and where they are expected to spend many hours every day in the laboratory or to complete an essay every week , and to sit ten or more 3-hour papers in 2 weeks . |
| 22 | In addition they are expected to spend more time on Art and Design History and Theory and on Management and Administration . |
| 23 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |
| 24 | Mobility for women who make up 45 per cent of the labour force involves little choice once they reach the 25–30 age group when they are expected to take temporary retirement into marriage . |
| 25 | Because of this , the only shock that can disturb current prices from the value they are expected to take next period is a relative demand shock . |
| 26 | Those who do go public are disloyal and there are thinly veiled attempts to dismiss the value of any revelation they make , for they are expected to remain silent and uncritical . |
| 27 | Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks . |
| 28 | They are expected to raise hundreds of pounds in sponsorship for the special care baby unit at the Friarage Hospital , Northallerton . |
| 29 | No-one in the Liverpool dressing room is left in any doubt as to the standards they are expected to achieve each time they are selected . |
| 30 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |