Example sentences of "expected [to-vb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juniors come to recognize that the local , situation-specific knowledge they are expected to acquire is important , that it will be called upon , and that it is their responsibility to develop and communicate it , to be sure it gets into the decision process . |
| 2 | July 1945 , and as the number of people expected to attend was considerably more than the Chiswick Town Hall could accommodate , the ceremony was held at the Chiswick Empire , hired for the occasion , and to which ‘ Monty ’ accompanied by the Mayor , Alderman T. W. Stroud , J.P. , rode in a landau carriage through cheering crowds . |
| 3 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 4 | It is n't enough for you , and I hate you for it , and I want you to go before you decide to leave me , and I love you , and how am I expected to stand being cooped up with him . |
| 5 | The grief and horror she would have expected to experience were somehow blunted and held at bay , though whether permanently or not she had no way of knowing . |
| 6 | The most she is expected to do is use slightly more positive words about Britain 's aims . |
| 7 | ] The details of what the supplier is expected to do is not stated in the contract but is decided later by the purchaser . |
| 8 | The doctrine that all the law was expected to do was to put creditors in possession of debtors ’ property was a totally inadmissible piece of spurious humanity . |
| 9 | Competent limestones in the allochthonous Devonian and Carboniferous section can be expected to have been fractured extensively where they were distorted in being forced up tectonic ramps . |
| 10 | The site in the Coln Valley could be expected to have been on much the same pattern , though a smaller scale . |
| 11 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 12 | ‘ They do n't show us that he 'd been anywhere he might not be expected to have been , if you see what I mean . |
| 13 | Few apart from servants and those running retailing shops would have expected to have been employed the whole year through . |
| 14 | The legislation for the new agency was expected to have been introduced into Parliament at the earliest possible opportunity by Secretary of State for the Environment , Michael Heseltine , who is expected to set a firm date for publication of the consultation paper on the new environment agency sometime in October . |
| 15 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 16 | ‘ Three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon will become meaningless , ’ grieves the new edition , widely expected to have been posthumous . |
| 17 | The number of relatives a person may be expected to have is of importance to all students of kinship and the family in the past and in the present , and especially to those concerned with kinship support of the elderly . |
| 18 | ‘ And here we are at the same time of year — well , they tell us it 's the same time of year , ’ he said , sarcastically , ‘ — and what we 're expected to eat are knobbly things actually grown in dirt ! |
| 19 | To earn that morale-boosting address , we were expected to stop being foolish children , abandon sloppy working and ‘ spilling liquids ’ , and behave like responsible folk . |
| 20 | Had he known that the sinecure into which he had expected to step was but a chimera , he would have opted for staying in the army which had , in fact , suited him . |