Example sentences of "[adv] expect [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1964 , although widely expected to reach the higher echelons of the Army , Winchester retired at his own request and settled in Kenya , where he kept dairy cattle on a farm outside Nairobi . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the old logo on the cover , though , we figured that many people would only expect to find the old-style pages within . |
| 5 | A seller would normally expect to receive the current market value of the units within fourteen days . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He looked backwards expecting to see the rear gunner running up the fuselage to report that his gun had jammed . |
| 8 | The Labour Party was still expected to take the leading part , an agitation being started for an emergency Labour Conference to discuss the Alliance . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As the only boat in Division C she wins that but is also expected to take the joint C and D prize . |
| 14 | It is also expected to use the new 80Mbytes-per-second version of the Micro Channel and to have 16 slots against eight on the 950 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Coca-Cola International , which was established at Portaferry in 1990 and draws upwards of 25,000 spectators , is again expected to attract the top men and women triathletes from around the world . |
| 20 | 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 . |