Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] expect [conj] " in BNC.

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1 There 's been plenty of speculation about what will be cut and what will be taxed , but it 's widely expected that there 'll be a big increase in the scope of VAT .
2 Yeah and all you know things that it 's almost expected that you will understand what they mean .
3 It is not expected that a bid will follow .
4 It is not expected that the ‘ man ’ will question his orders except to have points explicated .
5 It is not expected that the cost will rise above $2,000 , the cost of the government fine for emitting the same amount .
6 In Chambers , copy documents are not required in the High Court ( RSC Ord 32/21 ) , and it is not expected that they will be provided in the county court .
7 It is generally expected that the profits firms receive as a result of collusion exceed those they would earn in the one-shot NE , otherwise they might as well not collude .
8 Similarly , in completion of the Investigation part of each Short Course , it is again expected that appropriate acknowledgement of the Church 's teaching/practice be made .
9 The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue .
10 Indeed , it is confidently expected that new tagsets will be added , and their definition will form an important part of the continued work of this and successor projects .
11 But it is widely expected that further heads will have to roll if the discredited Communist Party is to retrieve the situation .
12 It is widely expected that bondholders will then be asked to convert some of their holdings into a new convertible preference share .
13 It is also expected that IBM may want to shed up to a further 30,000 people from its 300,000-strong pay roll , with undisguised lay-offs clearly on the agenda .
14 It is also expected that the existence of such a database will help the researcher to identify policy-relevant research and those areas which may be receiving insufficient attention .
15 It is also expected that the Physical Sciences Board will agree to forward to the General Board the name selected by the members of the department .
16 It is therefore expected that an inversion event would coincide with a major phase of migration , as previously suggested by Oele et al. ( 1981 ) .
17 It is therefore expected that the Karoo plume component would carry an OIB-like isotope signature , but would have lower abundances of incompatible trace element than typical OIB .
18 The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century .
19 By the end of the 1980s , it was confidently expected that people in the Soviet Union would enjoy a super-abundance of goods and the leisure time to appreciate them .
20 The years from 1966 to 1969 saw real GDP growing in excess of 10 per cent annually and , with growth at twice the level of Japan 's competitors , it was confidently expected that the substantial differences in productivity levels between large and small firms would be eroded .
21 All in all , excitement reached fever pitch and it was confidently expected that there would be releases within the next few weeks .
22 OUR man in the stalls writing a preview more in hope than expectation : Last night it was confidently expected that the Fifth Estate 's performance of Scapegoat at the Netherbow Theatre , Edinburgh , would go ahead .
23 But in France and England , by the early twelfth century , it was generally expected that the vassal would pay an ‘ aid ’ when the lord was captured in war and had to be ransomed , when his eldest son was knighted , and when his eldest daughter was married .
24 The club have kept this one very quiet as it was not expected that Hanley , who returned from a summer in Australia with a bad pelvic strain , would come back before the New Year .
25 It was not expected that there would be any effect on dot location by the shadowing .
26 Yet , if one looks at the situation from the point of view of the victim , it is an accident , in the sense that it was not expected or intended by the victim himself .
27 It was also expected that this decision would lead to the building of a power station to use the lignite .
28 There was guarded optimism that all Cambodian factions ( the three NGC elements and the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) regime based in Phnom Penh ) would accept the UN framework , as it was widely expected that the five states would put pressure on the respective factions they supported .
29 It was widely expected that the formal ban on direct trade with the Soviet Union would be lifted in 1990 leaving only mainland China , Albania , Cuba and North Korea on the prohibited list .
30 But it was never expected that voters would forsake their loyalties in large numbers for an abstract principle .
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