Example sentences of "expected to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Speeds are expected to be low — less than 20 km/h in most cases — and entrance ramps , changes in surface materials , and tree and shrub planting may be used to ensure compliance . |
| 32 | Could a related business activity be carried on within one area of the shop by any of the family members without registering for VAT ( the turnover of this activity is expected to be low ) ? |
| 33 | Full-year results for the bank are expected to be higher than last year . |
| 34 | At least 33 people were killed in the Bahamas , Florida ( where the death toll was greatest ) and Louisiana , although the final figure was expected to be higher . |
| 35 | But licensing details have yet to be agreed , and availability is expected to be late this year or early next . |
| 36 | Tonight expected to be dry with mist and fog patches forming and a ground frost in many places , the minimum temperature is down to one degree Celsius , thirty four Fahrenheit . |
| 37 | The work is expected to be applicable to the mainstream Unix market as well as real-time embedded systems and high performance parallel processing systems . |
| 38 | The Monday 's carnival procession will leave the Butts Green as usual and proceed through the town to Anstey Park , where the entertainment is expected to be bigger and better than ever . |
| 39 | A sunshine-filled adaption of Peter Mayle 's A Year In Provence with John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan is expected to be one of the viewing highlights on BBC1 in the grey months ahead . |
| 40 | The serial , about an English couple who quit the rat race to live the good and simple life in sunny France , is expected to be one of the highlights of BBC1 's £80 million schedule for the winter months . |
| 41 | She had expected to be one of the others . |
| 42 | This was expected to be one of the issues to be raised during the meeting . |
| 43 | Or are they expected to be grateful that after the hamfisted handling of Sir David ( now Lord ) Wilson 's resignation , Hong Kong is to be the possible reward for a loser in the game of political musical chairs ? |
| 44 | The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on . |
| 45 | ’ Louise is expected to be grateful that Gustave 's far-sightedness has spared her such an unsatisfactory life . |
| 46 | But , wherever we went , whatever we did , we were accompanied by the innate , subconscious awareness that we were expected to be grateful . |
| 47 | Inflation this year is now expected to be 3.5 per cent , with a similar figure next year , while unemployment is now expected to level off at about 3.1 million this year and next , reflecting the fact that companies have already shed labour faster than in previous cycles . |
| 48 | The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts . |
| 49 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 50 | Fixed investment is expected to be flat this year and up 2.9 per cent next , both a significant improvement on the last forecast , and even consumer spending is now expected to grow by 1.2 per cent this year and 1.9 per cent next , in spite of the threat of tax increases . |
| 51 | The poet praises Beowulf by linking his killing of the monster Grendel with the feats of Sigmund , who was clearly expected to be familiar to an English audience . |
| 52 | Intel Corp 's Scientific Computer Division is expected to be first to market in December , with an installation at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee . |
| 53 | " But is it really likely , sir , that the call was intended to delay the finding of the body and to give the killer time to replace the keys ? admittedly Mrs. Bidwell could be expected to be first in the Biology Department this morning when she put out the clean coats . |
| 54 | She had not expected to be such a kind of girl ; she had watched this kind of girl for years ( the lips discreetly reddened , the loud laughter on the school bus , the tossing of long hair beneath rakish berets , the swinging of hips , the whispering in the garden ) but she had never expected to become one . |
| 55 | According to the Fiji Reserve Bank , GDP growth was expected to be 5 per cent . |
| 56 | At a news conference on May 5 a member of the Cuban Communist Party political bureau , Carlos Lage Dávila , stated that projected imports for 1992 were expected to be 58 per cent down on 1991 and that imported fuel would total 6,000,000 tonnes compared with the previous " usual " annual figure of 13,300,000 tonnes . |
| 57 | Although passenger cars are expected to be 80–90 per cent ‘ cleaner ’ ( and lorries 75 — per cent ) under the plan , there obviously comes a point where , unless there is an endless expansion of the road system , so many vehicles will defeat their purpose , mobility , and still be , however ‘ clean ’ , a pollution problem . |
| 58 | Citizens are expected to be law-abiding . |
| 59 | Citizens are expected to be law-abiding . |
| 60 | Citizens are expected to be law-abiding . |