Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 . |
| 2 | Two home-grown drug research firms , British Bio-technology of Oxford , and Immunology of Cambridge , are expected to go public this year . |
| 3 | The Calcutt inquiry into press self regulation is expected to report back next year . |
| 4 | This was expected to affect around 250,000 people and to cost the state between 6,000 million and 6,500 million forints ( about US$80-86,000,000 ) in 1992 . |
| 5 | Its newspaper , Trybuna Ludu , lost 1.7billion zloties ( £382,500 ) last year ; this year it is expected to lose nearly five times as much . |
| 6 | Sections of the Grid which were expected to carry increasingly heavy loads ( such as those between the coalfield power stations in the East Midlands and load centres in London ) were to be constructed with wide clearances so as to be suitable for conversion to even higher voltages later should the need arise . |
| 7 | After the report advisers are expected to carry out follow-up work and proposals for improvement acted on . |
| 8 | When subjects were performing a variety of other judgment tasks they may have no longer expected to see particularly risky situations and consequently would have been better centred on the scale for risk ratings . |
| 9 | We would , therefore expect to see much greater lobbying in Congress than in the Commons , and so we do . |
| 10 | At the prizegiving , the winner is expected to pass on any tips to other members of staff . |
| 11 | Several thousand of the 226,000 people employed in the industry are also expected to clock up seven-figure incomes this year , making them targets of another Clinton tax proposal — a 10 per cent surcharge on earnings over $1 million a year . |
| 12 | THE DIFFERENCE between regular country acts and their rock 'n' roll equivalents is that your NME -friendly guitar-basher enjoys and is expected to try out new riffs , to be playful and weird . |
| 13 | Most critically , the island 's main export crop , sugar , was expected to total only 5,500,000 tonnes in 1992 , compared with 7,600,000 tonnes in 1991 , due to a 30 per cent drop in fuel supplies since 1990 . |
| 14 | The annual DMC event is followed on November 10 by the Technics DJ Championship World Mixing Finals at London 's Ministry Of Sounds , which is expected to attract over 1,000 DJs from around the world . |
| 15 | The Sainsbury petition was expected to attract about 2,500 signatures . |
| 16 | The mechanism which Roberts proposes might be expected to work anywhere that spruce is grown . |
| 17 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |
| 18 | Paul Warhurst and Phil King are expected to shake off minor injuries in time to face Forest . |
| 19 | Their importance is expected to increase as higher percentages of those approaching retirement age are members of occupational pension schemes . |
| 20 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 21 | It became apparent that his supporters in the presidential elections had switched their allegiance to Serrano , another evangelical Protestant , who was also expected to pick up second-round votes from the supporters of Arzu and of the now defunct small right-wing parties . |
| 22 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 23 | On Dec. 4 , in an agreement which was expected to open up new lines of credit to Argentina , Brady reached an agreement with Economy Minister Antonio Ermán González to refinance US$650,000,000 of debt with the US Eximbank and US$50,000,000 of debt with the International Development Association ( IDA ) , the concessionary loan affiliate of the World Bank , for repayment over 10 years , with a six-year grace period . |
| 24 | Michael Heseltine can be expected to exercise rather greater influence over British industry than he does politically over his progeny and the apoplectic Sheppard may care to reflect on the differences between Heseltine and Gordon Brown as Trade Secretaries . |
| 25 | CAR giant Ford is expected to announce around 5,000 redundancies this week at its UK plants and factories in Europe . |
| 26 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 27 | The main laying is expected to last approximately eight weeks , then the connection of services to properties will take about four weeks to complete . |
| 28 | Iraq was among more than 30 observers at the conference which was expected to last approximately 10 weeks . |
| 29 | In libel trials the threat is of bankruptcy , rather than prison : the action brought by Lord Aldington against Nigel Watts and Count Nikolai Tolstoy is expected to last around three months , and could ruin at least one side . |
| 30 | That investigation is expected to last about 4 weeks . |