Example sentences of "be expect [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Road works : Serious traffic delays are expected for four weeks while British Gas carries out excavations of the A59 at Rice Lane , near Walton Hospital , Liverpool . |
| 2 | DELAYS are expected for four weeks on the northbound carriageway of the M74 in Lanarkshire between junctions 7 , for Larkhall , and 6 , Motherwell . |
| 3 | Some liquid bowel movements are expected after many types of intestinal perfusion studies and in most of the subjects in this study liquid bowel movements had stopped after 24 hours . |
| 4 | More arrests are expected in other areas of Northern Ireland as investigations continue into collusion between security force personnel and loyalist paramilitary groups . |
| 5 | Redundancies are expected in large numbers , particularly from medium-sized firms . |
| 6 | This is an area where rapid and big gains are expected in several fields : diagnosing by cheap and standard reagents based upon immunological methods ( eg monoclonal antibodies ) for viral and malignant diseases ; new methods of vaccine production ; the production of genetically engineered organisms to produce human hormones and interferon . |
| 7 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 8 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 9 | The agreements , particularly that on the reunion of dispersed families , had not been expected by political commentators , but were seen as an important contribution towards providing some fresh momentum for the Premiers ' talks which , after the dramatic progress of December 1991 , had failed to make much progress in succeeding months . |
| 10 | Although the tax cuts were lower than many commentators had predicted , Lamont forecast a higher public-sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) for both the 1991-92 and 1992-93 financial years than had been expected by financial analysts . |
| 11 | Both of the hypertonic ORS contained higher glucose concentrations and higher water obsorption might have been expected from these solutions because of a greater stimulatory effect on active glucose transport . |
| 12 | Moody and high-strung though Anne was by nature , the girls ' brief quarrels were no more than might be expected between any siblings . |
| 13 | More problematically , open market areas need not be expected at all sites , because temporary stalls or even trestle tables could have been erected in side-streets , as in some modern towns today . |
| 14 | Isolation , rejection , dishonour and disrespect might be expected at different times . |
| 15 | In the Variscan province of southern England the existence of potential source and reservoir rocks can be expected on regional grounds . |
| 16 | Some are further ahead than others , but what will probably be expected of most authorities is some sort of erm perhaps a handbook or certainly some advice to parents about the implications of the new Act . |
| 17 | John Lee , M.P. , made a similar point : ‘ This is , above all , an intimate field of emotional human relationships where rationality is not always to be expected of human beings . |
| 18 | Sharing a common modality may be enough to produce generalization decrement and thus , according to the account presented above , an overshadowing effect might be expected with these stimuli . |
| 19 | Spreads may be expected by some traders , such as those who have views on subsequent movements in relative spot and futures prices but not price levels , to have a superior risk-return performance to single positions in futures . |
| 20 | Botanically , oases contain only the alga-lichen-moss communities that would be expected in continental habitats relatively recently freed from ice ( i.e. during the last few thousand years ) , where water is scarce and winds are strong . |
| 21 | If this theory were true a similar pattern might be expected in other journals . |
| 22 | Implications of the research for policy and practice are discussed and comparisons made with our nearest continental neighbours , France , and with what could be expected in normal families . |
| 23 | The growing divide between rich and poor might be expected in those bastions of the New Right , Thatcher 's Britain and Reagan 's US — but Australia ? |
| 24 | Does this imply that inferior performance can be expected in these structures ? |
| 25 | No information is available about the potential net pay ( i.e. the thickness of rock capable of producing hydrocarbons ) that could be expected in these sediments . |
| 26 | If this treatment changes the fundamental disease process , a prolonged period of remission might be expected in these patients . |
| 27 | As was to be expected in American contracts there was a paragraph prohibiting any act that would shock , insult or offend the community or degrade them in society . |
| 28 | This was the wholesome outrage you might expect from any conscientiously angry young man , and could be safely ignored as the sort of bubbling over occasionally to be expected in intellectual cauldrons like Encounter . |
| 29 | Here I can sketch only a part of that answer — although , as might be expected after seven years , I can also now take it a little further . |
| 30 | Superb build quality and a good specification are bonus points and 100,000 miles or more can be expected from well-maintained examples . |