Example sentences of "expected [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work . |
| 2 | The small supplier firm will often be located near to the big firm , and will be expected to provide supplies on demand . |
| 3 | Academic libraries may be expected to contain collections of research papers but too often one has to go to public libraries to find valuable collections of records and documents of local interest . |
| 4 | Nell half expected to come face to face with Mahon inside . |
| 5 | Denmark and Saxony hired out considerable forces to the anti-French coalition during the War of the Spanish Succession , while Britain employed Russian auxiliaries in 1747–48 and confidently expected to obtain others for use against the American colonists in 1775 . |
| 6 | The distribution of hoards might also be expected to reflect patterns of warfare and of wealth . |
| 7 | A collection of photographs featuring pop stars as diverse as David Bowie and The Osmonds , is expected to fetch £80,000 at auction . |
| 8 | These institutions will have their own professional codes of conduct and can therefore be expected to avoid conflicts of interest . |
| 9 | Smoking and drug histories were taken although no patient was receiving any treatment that would be expected to give rise to DNA damage . |
| 10 | His government was expected to start work without delay on a new constitution enshrining a pluralist democratic system . |
| 11 | This level of command was fixed ie as General Dwight Eisenhower you would not be expected to fly planes into combat , nor as the jockey of a M1 Abrams tank could you try and effect changes in grand strategy . |
| 12 | Palace , with seven points from their last three games , again use midfielder Thomas in central defence in place of the injured O'Reilly , and are expected to recall Pemberton at right-back at Shaw 's expense . |
| 13 | Finally , it should be noted that while a system of guide-lines might be expected to reduce disparity in sentencing , there is no guarantee that it would reduce the overall level of punitiveness . |
| 14 | An increasing level of activity is evident in these markets compared with a year ago and the new name is expected to reduce barriers to entry for these services . |
| 15 | His son , Arthur Ochs junior , alias Pinch , is expected to succeed Punch as publisher . |
| 16 | You re normally expected to vacate halls of residence during vacations , during which time you are not responsible for rent — unlike much of the private housing available . |
| 17 | This company is expected to have cash in hand by March next year of £680m as well as having an insignificant debt burden . |
| 18 | Informants can not , of course , be expected to quantify degrees of abnormality ; but what they can do is distinguish a fully normal sentence from one which is to some degree odd . |
| 19 | All local authority auditors are expected to review aspects of value for money as part of their annual audit programme . |
| 20 | The report says that consumers can be expected to pay double for water by the year 2000 to cover the cost of cleaning up . |
| 21 | This might have been expected to mitigate fear of death ; unfortunately , with the general decay of faith towards the end of the century , it was not only terror of hell that was declining , but also hope of immortality . |
| 22 | Perhaps not surprisingly , the average spending of the 27 authorities with named training officers was also just over £5,000 : the presence of a training officer would be expected to influence expenditure on training , and conversely , it is logical to appoint a training officer if a significant budget is being allocated to training . |
| 23 | You are told by your investment adviser that ABC PLC is expected to earn 50p per share next year , 60p per share the following year and that thereafter earnings are expected to grow by 8 per cent per year . |
| 24 | Competitors are expected to take part in athletics , swimming , badminton , tennis , squash , cyclng and golf . |
| 25 | Television stations would be expected to broadcast photographs of guerrilla leaders with offers of rewards for information . |
| 26 | Both Sun Microsystems Inc , due to announce systems based upon Viking on May 19th , and UK Sparc-builder ICL , which has already announced its Viking intentions ( UX No 371 ) , are expected to make statements about Viking availability on the 7th . |
| 27 | For a DTP exercise students might be expected to make use of style sheets rather than hard-wire formats into a document . |