Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contest for the Democratic nomination was , however , expected to provide significant indications of the party 's aspirations in the final decade of the 20th century . |
| 2 | SEVERE snow falls and high winds are expected to hit substantial parts of northern Scotland , Stonehaven and Drumochter northwards , for up to 24 hours from tonight , forecasters say . |
| 3 | We expect to stimulate significant improvements in NHS performance , particularly on waiting times , as a result . |
| 4 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 5 | The biological resources that just supported small nomadic populations at a neolithic level of culture can not be expected to support larger populations at southern standards of living . |
| 6 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
| 7 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
| 8 | At the same time , two other research programmes that stood to benefit handsomely from the stimulus plan — the $103 million proposed for the Advanced Technology Program ( ATP ) within the Department of Commerce and $47 million sought for cooperative research agreements between industry and the national laboratories in the Department of Energy — are expected to remain important priorities for the Clinton administration and to enjoy rising budgets in 1994 despite the temporary setback in Congress . |
| 9 | Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support . |
| 10 | Novell Inc will push back delivery of the beta version of NetWare 4.0 until September , according to prospective beta testers that have spoken to Microbytes Daily : at least two potential beta testers were told by sales reps that the 4.0 beta version , originally due last week , will be delayed while Novell improves the software 's interface and ramps up staffing on the 4.0 support hot lines ; also , one of the crucial issues Novell has yet to resolve is how easily network administrators will be able to migrate from their existing versions ; 4.0 is expected to include major enhancements to the operating system 's administration services , including audit trails for all file activity and a new retrieve-based user directory . |
| 11 | It also meant that all political structures , especially the less specialized and differentiated ones found in Third World states , could be expected to perform additional functions to those which were their main raison d'être . |
| 12 | The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks . |
| 13 | It is expected to see initial revenues from the Sentry-E as in the fourth quarter , with first-year sales put at about $25m . |
| 14 | Local authorities , parents and others concerned with the child are expected to agree reasonable arrangements for contact before a care order , whether final or interim , is made . |
| 15 | Friends of the Earth and the Women 's Environmental Network are expected to lodge formal complaints in Brussels that the UK Ecolabelling Board breached its obligation to consult relevant organisations before setting standards . |
| 16 | Allowing for intersubject variability , one night still expect to see marked changes in the histology of the small bowel after infusion of 100 mg of pure peptide . |
| 17 | ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’ |
| 18 | The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are expected to impose strict conditions on any aid . |
| 19 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 20 | Many potential purchasers expect to find fitted wardrobes in bedrooms these days . |
| 21 | The country 's biggest oil refinery , Ahmadi , which resumed operations on Aug. 27 , was expected to meet domestic demands by processing up to 130,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) of crude oil . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The £6 million scheme , which is expected to create 150 jobs with 85 more during construction , will provide DIY , electrical and furniture shopping facilities for the north-west of the city . |
| 24 | Despite continued pressure from environmental groups to ban the use of lead , its consumption was expected to reach 4,430,000 tonnes in 1990 , very slightly ahead of the record levels attained in 1989 . |
| 25 | But by the end of the decade Renatel is expected to reach 100 megabits per second — a capacity made possible by France 's planned switch to fibre optics throughout its telephone system by the year 2000 . |
| 26 | ( 139b ) … reflected solar radiation is not expected to cause sizable errors in the measurements of planetary radiation . |
| 27 | Maryland was organized as a late and formal version of the feudal system , the Virginian way of life was always expected to reflect some memories of the heirs of the Elizabethan gentlemen and seadogs who had launched it , and Massachusetts and the other New England colonies that emerged from it retained a moral earnestness that sometimes survived the loss of the faith that had initially inspired the earnestness . |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia remained the only Arab state without diplomatic relations with China , but China had been a weapons supplier to Saudi Arabia since 1985 ; in addition the move was expected to open new links between Saudi Arabia and the Moslem minority in China . |
| 29 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
| 30 | The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation . |