Example sentences of "be expect [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not be expected to monitor these statements . |
| 2 | But as anarchy increases , so we will be expected to use that influence . |
| 3 | At the end of your talk you will be expected to answer any questions which the audience may have to ask . |
| 4 | Well , he could n't be expected to shed any tears . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 6 | Market makers can aim to run only modest positions in any group of similar stocks or they can run large but offsetting positions , i.e. being long on certain stocks and short on others such that capital gains and losses can be expected to cancel each other out . |
| 7 | Pools with the detritus would be expected to harbour more fish , but then predation from the belted kingfisher , Ceryle alcyon , increases . |
| 8 | Patients refused admission can not be expected to take much comfort from this explanation of their plight . |
| 9 | ‘ If nitrate does , indirectly , cause cancer , it will be the long-term average that matters and the effect of any increase in cancer rates would be expected to take many years to become apparent … |
| 10 | Trade has been stimulated by the process of detente , and the moves towards ‘ democratisation ’ of the Eastern Bloc can be expected to continue this process . |
| 11 | Note that since the CRE sequence exhibits inversion symmetry , the conformation of the dodecamer would also be expected to respect this symmetry . |
| 12 | Deep sea fishing countries such as Japan , Korea and Russia can be expected to oppose such organisations being given legally enforceable powers to control fishing . |
| 13 | An acceptable formula will probably be expected to make each school 's ‘ budget share ’ depend mainly on the numbers of pupils in the school , but also to take into account such factors as the ages of the children , the subjects they are studying , and the numbers with special needs ; and also perhaps the levels of social advantage and disadvantage in the community the school serves . |
| 14 | Furthermore , graduates can be expected to make fewer demands on the public purse in later life . |
| 15 | However , the builder may be expected to make some contribution towards travelling time and costs where he has failed to obtain suitable sub-contract labour within the vicinity of the site and a subcontractor is requested to travel an excessive distance . |
| 16 | To be expected to relinquish this power , and give up some of the spoils to the likes of SARU , who had been at the forefront in demanding the non-participation of the Springboks in international competition since it was ‘ impossible to play normal sport in an abnormal society ’ , must , understandably , be a difficult to swallow . |
| 17 | You will be expected to keep this knowledge up to date , to make the time to look at studio representatives ' portfolios of illustrators , story board artists or photographers . |
| 18 | The court accepted that the minister would not be expected to hear such representations as if he were a judge . |
| 19 | He argued that , on the one hand , reproduction is mainly practised by peasants and others of low rank , who could hardly be expected to show much interest in whether they produced male or female children . |
| 20 | However , you would be expected to show some knowledge of , and interest in the affairs of the authority in question and of the issues affecting local government generally . |
| 21 | A national industrial relations system formulated with labour organisations which are an adjunct to a successful nationalist movement , which has secured independence , may be expected to show some characteristics different from [ one ] in which national independence antedated the union movements or in which the union movements played a minor role in the nationalist movement . |
| 22 | On the other hand , ’ the flat menace in his voice silenced her indignant denial before it could be voiced , ‘ a woman in her twenties might reasonably be expected to show more intelligence . |
| 23 | GPs with their own budgets and District Health Authorities will be expected to place either block contracts for a defined range of services , or cost and volume contracts , for a certain number of cases , for most services . |
| 24 | Certainly , the habituation process described in Chapter 2 will be engaged during the first stage of a latent inhibition experiment and might be expected to play some part in determining the outcome . |
| 25 | Few could be expected to assume that eccentricity . |
| 26 | Consequently , the master or captain of the tanker or dry bulk shipment vessel may reasonably be expected to sign each bill . |
| 27 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |
| 28 | A local authority would be expected to offer these services before seeking an order unless it had clear evidence that the parents would be unwilling or incapable of making use of them . |
| 29 | Whether the risk is one against which the occupier may reasonably be expected to offer some protection will depend upon factors which are more usually taken into account when assessing the standard of care , e.g. the nature and extent of the risk , practicability of precautions and , possibly , the type of entrant . |
| 30 | Scotland ‘ A ’ are also supposed to be meeting Italy on Saturday , 19th December 1992 , in Aberdeen , but one wonders how the Italians will be expected to approach this fixture . |