Example sentences of "be expect [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salvage and repair work and pumping are expected to continue all day , but more rain is forecast for tonight . |
| 2 | The same number are expected to arrive this year . |
| 3 | Local authorities are expected to resolve any questions as to a child 's ordinary residence by agreement , failing which the Secretary of State will decide ( s30(2) ) . |
| 4 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 5 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 6 | Dr Stroud and Sir Ranulph are expected to give more details about their experiences at a London news conference today . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In addition they are expected to spend more time on Art and Design History and Theory and on Management and Administration . |
| 9 | Oil exports are expected to increase this year , but will soon fall back ; domestic consumption is soaring ( because the stuff is so cheap ) , and few new wells are being drilled in the forests . |
| 10 | Custodians are expected to inform each other immediately when children are moved from one part of the country to another , and the child 's name should be immediately registered in the new locality , pending a case conference . |
| 11 | Where a service is provided for a child under 16 , the parents are expected to meet any charge . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Profits are expected to show little change from last year 's Pounds 94m . |
| 14 | Appeal courts are expected to show some mercy because the defendant has twice had to face the ordeal of being sentenced . |
| 15 | Older people are expected to play little part in the running of the group , beyond perhaps a simple process of consultation . |
| 16 | Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed . |
| 17 | The Server 60 and Server 80 are expected to ship this summer , when UK pricing will be announced . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mergers are usually disturbing to employees and managers alike , and a merger of nearly 600 undertakings might have been expected to create more pain than most . |
| 20 | The Department of Health had been expected to approve another £250,000 when the story that it would refuse was leaked , apparently from Downing Street . |
| 21 | Esther Breuer might well have been expected to approve this advice , with its implication that depth rather than breadth is of importance , and intimate knowledge of a corner more valuable than a sketchy acquaintance with the globe . |
| 22 | IBM and Sybase Inc have cooked up a co-development/co-marketing deal revolving around the RS/6000 that they 're expected to announce this week . |
| 23 | I can not be expected to monitor these statements . |
| 24 | But as anarchy increases , so we will be expected to use that influence . |
| 25 | At the end of your talk you will be expected to answer any questions which the audience may have to ask . |
| 26 | Well , he could n't be expected to shed any tears . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Market makers can aim to run only modest positions in any group of similar stocks or they can run large but offsetting positions , i.e. being long on certain stocks and short on others such that capital gains and losses can be expected to cancel each other out . |
| 29 | Pools with the detritus would be expected to harbour more fish , but then predation from the belted kingfisher , Ceryle alcyon , increases . |
| 30 | Patients refused admission can not be expected to take much comfort from this explanation of their plight . |