Example sentences of "[is] to [be] expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's to be expected , it 's what men do . ’ |
| 2 | MAX : It 's to be expected . |
| 3 | There was a suspicion of extra flesh at hip and belly , but that 's to be expected on an adult male . |
| 4 | HE 'S BLACK SO IT 'S TO BE EXPECTED |
| 5 | They tend to say , oh well , he 's black so it 's to be expected , they 're bound to do that , so when they give you that kind of attitude , you think oh well , blow them , if that 's what they think , why not act like that . |
| 6 | Well I think actually not as , as , as many as there were the , like in the other , years ago , but that 's to be expected nowadays . |
| 7 | ‘ A little tired , but that 's to be expected , and I do n't regret a thing , ’ came the firm response . |
| 8 | It 's to be expected really . |
| 9 | Still as I say , no , th it 's , it 's a fair comment to say it 's to be expected . |
| 10 | To an extent , the anger is to be expected from a newspaper which has become a strident mouthpiece of conservative elements in the Kremlin leadership . |
| 11 | As is to be expected , the story is a mixed one . |
| 12 | They show the consistency that is to be expected from a ten-year rolling programme . |
| 13 | Its universality is to be expected if all existing organisms have a single ancestor . |
| 14 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 15 | There is only some slight damage to its carrying case , but that is to be expected . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , this opposition is to be expected . ’ |
| 17 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 18 | No increase is to be expected ( and none is found ) when the test context is itself familiar . |
| 19 | If the CR observed in the original context depends on a summation of its own excitatory strength with that controlled by the context , then a decline in the vigour of the CR is to be expected in a test context lacking excitatory strength . |
| 20 | To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific . |
| 21 | Given that pre-trial standards were acceptable , the maintenance of , or an improvement in those standards is to be expected during and at the end of the trial . |
| 22 | When long hair was the trademark of the hippy and the dropout , it is to be expected that an anti-hippy movement should adopt short hair . |
| 23 | It may be realistic to suggest that a certain amount of cellulite is to be expected in women , but severe cases should be taken seriously . |
| 24 | The black hooves are hard and the legs sound , as is to be expected in upland cattle . |
| 25 | In contrast to the Sahel zone which is classified as semi-arid , Kuwait is arid ( Desertification Map of the World , FAO/Unesco 1977 ) so it is to be expected that desertification is a prominent problem and a major agent of environmental change . |
| 26 | As is to be expected such loans are liquid and generate income . |
| 27 | ‘ If the fluctuations in rainfall … continue as they have over approximately the past 90 years , ’ he said , ‘ the development of drought at that time is to be expected ( as it is also in south-eastern Australia and New Zealand ) . ’ |
| 28 | Thus little transformation is to be expected from that direction . |
| 29 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 30 | Similar analyses are required under the 1992 regulations in respect of retail and non-retail funds , which is to be expected , but also in respect of commercial assets , which was less predictable and is a potential source of confusion and misunderstanding . |