Example sentences of "[adv] expected to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jiang is widely expected to be named China 's president in addition to his current post during the annual meeting of the National People 's Congress that begins on Monday . |
| 2 | Gamsakhurdia 's term was to last only until direct presidential elections which the Supreme Soviet scheduled for May 26 , but he was widely expected to be returned to office . |
| 3 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 4 | Winner of the South African Grand Prix on Sunday , Prost had been widely expected to be banned for one or more races or heavily fined . |
| 5 | Progress on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project , expected to become an important additional source of income and employment , was not expected to be affected by the political crisis in February 1990 ; the military government confirmed its intention of proceeding with the scheme under which hydroelectricity was to be generated in Lesotho and water was to be diverted from a catchment area in Lesotho to South Africa 's industrial heartland in the Transvaal [ see pp. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] . |
| 6 | Lawyers for the two sides were continuing negotiations late into the night and a settlement was not expected to be announced until today . |
| 7 | The Armagh line-up is not expected to be unveiled until tomorrow morning since John and Mark Grimley , Ger Houlahan and Ciaran McGurk are all under treatment for injuries and John Toner is suspended . |
| 8 | Able to dissemble , because those lads had not expected to be killed . |
| 9 | With few spares and no reserve aircraft , their service was not expected to be sustained . |
| 10 | A bill formally legalizing the new parties was not expected to be enacted before April . |
| 11 | Zanardi , who partners Johnny Herbert , is still recovering from his huge practice shunt at Spa-Francorchamps in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix and is not expected to be given the go-ahead to race . |
| 12 | Defender Matty Appleby picked up a calf injury , but is not expected to be sidelined . |
| 13 | It has meant that proposed talks with Forest over his return to the club have been put on hold , and the transfer is not expected to be completed until the weekend . |
| 14 | Thornaby by-pass has also been in the offing for a number of years , but is now not expected to be completed until 1996 or 1997 . |
| 15 | The review is not expected to be completed for three or four years but initial findings could be implemented by this autumn 's statement on spending . |
| 16 | It is not expected to be commercialised . |
| 17 | It is not expected to be commercialised . |
| 18 | In other words , cash limits were not expected to be adjusted during the subsequent year to take account of inflation . |
| 19 | The token repayment of $60 million per month on the $40,000 million commercial debt was not expected to be increased . |
| 20 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 21 | The report 's contents are not expected to be damaging to the government . |
| 22 | ‘ Change you no more ’ has the provocation of a challenge not expected to be accepted . |
| 23 | ‘ The effects of the Chancellor 's Budget are not expected to be felt in the local economy for some time . ’ |
| 24 | The Directive is not expected to be enforced before 1995 . |
| 25 | Belinda , five , had n't expected to see Santa yesterday — but then her mother and father , Gill and Paul , had not expected to be celebrating at the hospital . |
| 26 | The English version is not expected to be published until sometime next year . |
| 27 | Lord Pearson expressed the way in which the courts approach this aspect very clearly in Taylor v O'Connor [ 1971 ] AC 115 at p143 when he said : The fund of damages is not expected to be preserved intact . |
| 28 | Luxury German car-makers such as Mercedes and BMW are not expected to be panicked into price increases . |
| 29 | When he left his home this morning he had not expected to be carrying Lestrade of the Yard and Sherlock Holmes , and was by no means certain he was ready for this responsibility . |
| 30 | We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October . |