Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be expected " in BNC.

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1 In these early stages of re-training , the horse can be expected to keep in rhythm while doing basic school movements , carrying himself on a light contact .
2 It requires the cooperation of every citizen , and no law which unreasonably infringes the freedoms of that citizen can be expected to be effective .
3 ‘ Another large foreign entry can be expected again as it will be one of the last competitions before the Barcelona Olympics , ’ explained Michael Tucker .
4 Trade has been stimulated by the process of detente , and the moves towards ‘ democratisation ’ of the Eastern Bloc can be expected to continue this process .
5 And given that total hardware sales plummeted by 19.4% to $5,740m in the quarter , keeping the overall decline to 7% was an achievement in itself , even if within a quarter or three , turnover can be expected to start declining at an accelerating pace .
6 And given that total hardware sales plummeted by 19.4% to $5,740m in the quarter , keeping the overall decline to 7% was an achievement in itself , even if within a quarter or three , turnover can be expected to start declining at an accelerating pace .
7 For instance , the ‘ coming of age ’ of a baby boom can be expected to lead to higher levels of migration towards the ‘ bright city lights ’ , while the subsequent increase in the numbers of young couples is likely to lead to greater demand for family-size housing and suburban residential locations .
8 However , as it was found to be the lack of care which followed the loss of a parent , rather than the loss itself , which explained the child 's increased risk of depression in adulthood , the same vulnerability can be expected to result from lack of care in intact family homes ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) .
9 If so , an equivalent effect can be expected in latent inhibition .
10 Considerable variability can be expected during spring and from year to year , both because the location of the vortex varies with respect to the observing site , and because of the large horizontal gradient in HNO 3 across the vortex edge .
11 The resources needed will not come easily , but tasks defined in partnership can be expected to unlock new stores , not necessarily the most conventional , of energy and material .
12 The Court of Appeal was satisfied that the following matters were among those to which attention should be paid : 1 The nature of the employment Employment in a capacity where " confidential " material is habitually handled may impose a high obligation of confidentiality because the employee can be expected to realise its sensitive nature to a greater extent than if he were employed in a capacity where such material reaches him only occasionally or incidentally .
13 Also in need of special attention are key locations where crime can be expected , especially at might , such at commercial properties and residential areas in the suburbs .
14 Automation can be expected steadily to solve any remaining problems of under production .
15 Even for severely ill patients a good long term outlook can be expected for most of those undergoing transplantation ; the overall survival of 70% at a mean of 69 months for those discharged from hospital after such an operation compares favourably with the long term results of cardiac transplantation worldwide .
16 The debate on the BBC 's future , prior to the renewal of its charter in 1996 , is another area where his influence can be expected to be felt .
17 An animal that has previously learned that a stimulus is not correlated with other events will have learned something quite incompatible with what is true during conditioning and so negative transfer can be expected .
18 If they choose the former , the dollar can be expected to strengthen relative to other currencies .
19 A great deal of assistance can be expected from suppliers .
20 For most pupils , however , assistance can be expected to be found from within the school 's own resources .
21 Other methodological issues can not be solved in this straightforward fashion : reality is not wholly determinate , so there are statements with the property that no long-run agreement on their truth or falsity can be expected , so when are we justified in continuing inquiry into a question which may , for all we know , have no answer ?
22 Clearly the questions must be such that the relevant population can be expected to understand them and to make informed responses .
23 That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours .
24 In essence each region or district gets its share of the total amount of funds available on the basis of the size of the population served , weighted to take account of the use different sections of that population can be expected to make of the service .
25 If Thai superstition is anything to go by , a concomitant expansion in the human population can be expected .
26 India 's official census has revealed that its population can be expected to increase by 25 per cent by the year 2011 , surpassing China as the world 's most densely populated country .
27 We go to a chemist and say : get out your textbooks and your calculating machine ; sharpen your pencil and your wits ; fill your head with formulae , and your flasks with methane and ammonia and hydrogen and carbon dioxide and all the other gases that a primeval nonliving planet can be expected to have ; cook them all up together ; pass strokes of lightning through your simulated atmospheres , and strokes of inspiration through your brain ; bring all your clever chemist 's methods to bear , and give us your best chemist 's estimate of the probability that a typical planet will spontaneously generate a self-replicating molecule .
28 As biological bias is increased toward one choice as opposed to another in the course of genetic evolution , the mode of the ethnographic curve can be expected to shift in that direction .
29 They actively seek to expand their influence and would appear to be aiming to cover most of west London … the group can be expected to continue in their attempts to undermine the police , but are unlikely to be successful except in conditions of widespread disorder , general strike , etc , when they might have a potential for destabilisation . ’
30 Notes : All members of this group can be expected to be aged 60 or more and approximately 66 per cent female .
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