Example sentences of "expected [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 2 | The government has already invested large sums of money in engineering crops that resist insect pests and the climatic extremes expected to come with global warming |
| 3 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 4 | Therefore in considering the degree to which any er area can assimilate a new settlement , the size which it must reach subsequent to two thousand and six , should be considered in addition to the size it expected to reach by that date . |
| 5 | The inquiry , expected to last for four days , continues . |
| 6 | I expected to bump into young Darius or someone . |
| 7 | The 56 people who died during the riots are around 3 per cent of the total expected to die from violent crime in the current 12 months . |
| 8 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 9 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 10 | For a gene affecting survival , the proportion of total reproduction expected to occur after that age ( which depends on the fertility schedule ) is also important ( hence the integral in equation ( 2b ) ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The main oil fields in production are the Bombay High off the west coast and some onshore fields in Gujerat and Assam but with consumption expected to rise at some 6% per year this aim is unlikely to be achieved without significant new discoveries . |