Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The report , Choosing a Sustainable Future , is expected to carry considerable weight with the Clinton administration ; several members of the team responsible for preparing it are close to the new president .
2 Both these cat families were in zoos , where the proximity of the male was forced on the female and where , if anywhere , one might have expected to see tom-cat aggression towards the young .
3 A high-speed rail network planned between Seoul and Pusan in the south-east and between Seoul and Mokpo in the south-west was expected to encourage regional development in the relatively underdeveloped south .
4 However , the Council 's forecast in July 1990 of a rise in world wheat production by 28,000,000 tonnes to 564,000,000 tonnes in 1990-91 , with coarse grains expected to rise to 837,000,000 tonnes , was expected to provide limited replacement of stocks .
5 A new satellite launched by India is expected to provide additional information on the country 's natural resources .
6 Ultimately , it is expected to provide overnight accommodation for up to 30 volunteers .
7 France was reported on Dec. 4 to have offered to contribute 1,500-2,000 troops to a multinational force expected to total 35,000 , and was expected to provide logistical support through its base in Djibouti .
8 Though those parents who were able to escape to England might have been expected to accept immediate responsibility for their offspring , this was often not practicable .
9 Any attempt by the administration to bring about a comprehensive lifting of sanctions before all US conditions were met had long been expected to meet strong opposition in Congress .
10 These conditions were expected to meet stiff resistance in the Legislative Assembly .
11 The criticisms contained in the report are expected to cause considerable embarrassment to the government , which maintains that since energy saving reduces costs it will come about naturally if market forces are allowed to function without interference .
12 The multi-dimensional scaling configuration resulting from processing the ‘ degree of intermarriage ’ values might therefore be expected to reflect geographical location of the villages .
13 The collapse of the Keating empire , and the destruction of much of Kuwait city by the occupying Iraqis , might have been expected to dim Kuwaiti interest in hotel development in Phoenix .
14 Arithmetic , spelling , grammar and punctuation are expected to receive strong backing from Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , in a keynote address on education policy in Aberdeen on Monday .
15 Hence , they might both have expected to receive considerable support from such sources .
16 Only a Christian discipleship of biblical calibre can be expected to handle spiritual freedom with responsibility .
17 Expect to hear good news before sundown .
18 As for confining his work to under 6,000 people areas , he would remind the Board that the terms of his appointment stated ‘ he will be expected to exercise general supervision over the work of the Board in Norfolk and in particular to assist in the development of Adult Education in rural areas ’ ; he would also remind them that the Board decided that his Statutory Tutorial Class should be in Norwich .
19 The medical officer of health of the county council was expected to exercise general supervision over the work of the public health and medical staff in the various services including the hospitals , but it was recommended that he should interfere as little as possible in the clinical work , i.e. between doctor and patient .
20 ) , Leapor was probably expected to combine basic cooking with extensive cleaning both in the kitchen and other parts of the house .
21 Accurate sequencing of the related genes and further X-ray studies are expected to generate additional information on the origin and evolution of bacterial DHFR genes .
22 A meeting of the 16 NATO nations in Brussels is expected to give final approval to the no-fly mission today .
23 Social fund officers are expected to give high priority to requests for loans for the above purposes .
24 The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain .
25 Thatcherites have been rewarded with the rapid promotion of Michael Portillo , who is expected to keep public spending in check as Chief Secretary to the Treasury .
26 During this time conditions were to be worked out for a monitoring scheme and new quota system , which was expected to allow renewed exploitation of certain stocks , notably of minke whales .
27 Franco was expected to seek congressional approval for a two-step reform to simplify the tax system and to counter tax evasion , in order to meet performance targets set by the IMF in the January 1992 agreement [ see pp. 38719-20 ] for the disbursement of credits .
28 One hundred bankers have been invited to Toronto on April 13 when O&Y is expected to seek formal suspension of debt repayments .
29 He is also expected to have complete trust in his opponent in spite of all indications to the contrary .
30 While younger pupils can not be expected to have great depth of understanding and indeed will not reach a mature conceptual level of historical understanding until their mid-teens , none the less the initial building bricks in the process can be laid from the very beginning of the pupil 's school career .
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