Example sentences of "be expect [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SERIOUS traffic delays are expected while British Gas carry out excavations of the A59 at Rice Lane , near Walton Hospital , Liverpool . |
| 2 | We controlled the game better than might have been expected but this game is different and , however much you plan things , a goal can change everything . |
| 3 | US scientists who have analysed the data claim that there is no evidence that temperatures in the lower atmosphere have increased significantly , as could have been expected if global warming were underway . |
| 4 | In the light of certain of the clinical evidence it might be expected that one factor influencing the direction or degree of perceptual asymmetry obtained in laboratory experiments among left handers would be their degree of sinistrality . |
| 5 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
| 6 | It might therefore be expected that many contests would provide fatalities , but this was not the case . |
| 7 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 8 | It is not to be expected that each sentence written will obey grammar rules . |
| 9 | If the key processes are biochemical , then it might be expected that each memory will have its specific representation in terms of the synthesis of unique proteins or other molecules . |
| 10 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 11 | It might be expected that subsequent cohorts of elderly people will be more likely to have children , and be survived by them , but other social and economic trends may reduce their ability and willingness to assume caring responsibilities for aged parents . |
| 12 | To the idealist , the whole world is a manifestation of a rational pattern in the mind of its Creator , and thus it is to be expected that natural forms should reveal a harmony and an underlying unity . |
| 13 | It can be expected that some rabbits confined in short burrows will begin to bolt quite quickly , at times almost instantly . |
| 14 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 15 | The topic of interpersonal distance has a copious literature in its own right ( see Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) and it is to be expected that any effects due to hemispheric asymmetry will interact with social and personality factors in different ways under different circumstances . |
| 16 | In addition to the consumption of resources by the Contra war , it might well be expected that military invasion would harden government attitudes towards those whose actions were deemed anti-social or anti-government . |
| 17 | In the end , there is nothing better to be expected than dignified poverty with the consolation of friendship . |
| 18 | To return to the main point : we introduced surface dyslexia as the pattern of acquired dyslexia which would be expected if neurological damage had affected the lexical procedure for reading aloud and spared the non-lexical procedure . |
| 19 | In all experiments on toroidal discharges neutrons have been observed in about the numbers to be expected if thermonuclear reactions were proceeding . |
| 20 | Or , conversely , is there positive clumping of particular cone types , as might be expected if local patches of cones were descended from a single precursor cell ? |
| 21 | An upper jaw from Samburu Hills appears to have gorilla-like morphology of its teeth combined with thick enamel , which is very much what would be expected if thick enamel is identified as an ancestral hominine character . |
| 22 | Moreover , there is little seismic evidence for the intermediate and deep earthquakes below the Himalayas that would be expected if active subduction is , in fact , occurring . |
| 23 | This would suggest that a spontaneous decline in the incidence of attempted suicide might be expected as greater numbers of people come into personal contact with someone who has attempted suicide and public attitudes towards attempters become more negative . |
| 24 | The administration of additional inspired oxygen seemed to be of benefit ; in 15 patients with baseline hypoxaemia this would be expected as episodic desaturation has been reported to be more severe if baseline hypoxaemia is present . |
| 25 | The PBS deputy leader , Bernard Dompok , said that more arrests could be expected as federal leaders were aiming to " create uncertainty " in Sabah . |
| 26 | No precise information about the extent of trade in jet can be expected until different varieties of jet have been more precisely defined . |
| 27 | For example , in paragraph 2.19 it states ’ HMI was concerned to hear , repeatedly , from police officers that they were having to concede more and more ground to the hooligans in the street , as no police back-up could be expected when scanty resources were deployed to incidents . ’ |
| 28 | Judicial misinterpretation is only to be expected where radical reform is introduced . |
| 29 | By then it is expected that all sides will have an agreement to keep the EFA flying . |
| 30 | There are a large number of situations in which it is expected that professional judgement will have a considerable influence upon the implementation process . |