Example sentences of "be expect for [adj] [noun] " 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 | No results , however , are expected for some time ; and in any case , Whitehall expenditure reviews are notorious for failing to deliver anything of significance . |
| 4 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 5 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 6 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 7 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 8 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 10 | " Sacrifices could be demanded in the name of democracy which could not be expected for mere patriotism for the social order as it was . " |
| 11 | Table 6.8 shows the percentage of accesses to synonyms to be expected for various bucket sizes , in the 80/20 case . |
| 12 | Accountants might therefore pay more attention to indicating the types of profiles to be expected for each category of SBU ; clearly , unthinking comparisons between them with respect to their financial performance should be avoided . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 14 | When the equivalence principle is applied to photons they are predicted to undergo a gravitational red shift when they leave a star , whilst a deflection is expected for light passing near to a massive body . |