Example sentences of "be expected [prep] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Antineutrons are expected by some particle physicists , who believe on theoretical grounds that neutrons could change into antineutrons on their way from the Sun to the Earth . |
| 6 | More arrests are expected in other areas of Northern Ireland as investigations continue into collusion between security force personnel and loyalist paramilitary groups . |
| 7 | Results are expected in mid August . |
| 8 | Redundancies are expected in large numbers , particularly from medium-sized firms . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 11 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 12 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 13 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 14 | Perhaps part of the problem is that far too much has been expected of positivist criminology or , alternatively , positivist criminologists have been responsible for fostering too grandiose expectations . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A spokesman for Dowty 's says the work had been expected by Dowty landing gear ; and so it wo n't affect the request for workers to take a pay freeze . |
| 18 | The actual local air traffic will be compared with the level which would have been expected by natural growth as predicted by a successful Federal Aviation Administration model . |
| 19 | Little problem had been expected from that workforce : it was young , unorganized and naive . |
| 20 | Certainly in the matter of military aid , as the working party concluded , the US ( without sending troops ) was in a position to make a unique contribution : but even more positive results might have been expected from economic assistance . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Moody and high-strung though Anne was by nature , the girls ' brief quarrels were no more than might be expected between any siblings . |
| 23 | And , as is often the case in the media , literary texts have the habit of not turning out to mean what might be expected at first sight . |
| 24 | Speedy success was essential , since records gathered over the previous 80 years showed that at best only three weeks of rain-free weather could be expected at that time of the year . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Isolation , rejection , dishonour and disrespect might be expected at different times . |
| 27 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |
| 28 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |
| 29 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 30 | " Sacrifices could be demanded in the name of democracy which could not be expected for mere patriotism for the social order as it was . " |