Example sentences of "[noun pl] may be expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers may be expected to allow reasonable opportunities for their employees to engage in public service , but substantial demands for time off may either be refused or constitute a block to career advancement . |
| 2 | The buyer may be feigning disinterest , and throughout a sales interview several peaks may be expected to occur . |
| 3 | The proposal must explain why an IVA is desirable and why creditors may be expected to support it . |
| 4 | The proposal must explain why an IVA is desirable and why creditors may be expected to support it . |
| 5 | We have already said that today 's performers may be expected to improvise . |
| 6 | If this model of democracy prevails , social policies may be expected to be determined by the commitments of the political parties , and proposals for policy changes will be set out in election manifestos . |
| 7 | In the same way that rationalisation may encourage centralisation towards core economies , proximity to major market centres and abundance of supporting service activities may be expected to draw " footloose " production and distribution units towards central areas of an economy . |
| 8 | ( Voluntary controlled schools may be expected to follow the locally agreed syllabus . |
| 9 | Opportunities may be expected to exist for a young male to join the harem . |
| 10 | Consolidation and centralisation have been effected to a much greater degree than here , and so a reaction to their effects may be expected to be stronger . |
| 11 | Therefore , both the extent and the functions of green belts may be expected to change in the near future , and this change may also have social implications . |
| 12 | Academic libraries may be expected to contain collections of research papers but too often one has to go to public libraries to find valuable collections of records and documents of local interest . |
| 13 | The relative contributions may be expected to vary from one city to another . |
| 14 | In large part this is a reflection of the underdeveloped state of industrial relations theory itself to whose improvement , by way of helping more general theory construction , well-designed comparative studies may be expected to contribute . |
| 15 | In one organization managers may be expected to take a directive style in the management of their subordinates . |
| 16 | We are told that " the reason why constituencies of about five members are recommended is that they form communities [ ? ] where electors may be expected to have sufficient personal knowledge of the candidates ' . |
| 17 | Experimentation with ‘ alternative ’ ways of organising social affairs may be expected , thanks to increased leisure time , more home-based working and , above all , sheer ideological commitment . |
| 18 | In the example of a factory , completely different assessments may be expected from the board of directors , shareholders , management , workers , and shop-stewards . |
| 19 | The extent to which individual disciplines make use of libraries in their researches may be expected to vary , but when one sees that some universities spend 50% to 100% per capita more than others , it does suggest that the value placed by university managers on their libraries varies in some highly individualistic ways . |
| 20 | For instance , classifying an event as a ‘ riot ’ or as ‘ vandalism ’ may call forth different typical explanations for the event , and differences may be expected in the typical people involved in such activity , the typical consequences and the relevant steps necessary to prevent such behaviour . |
| 21 | For example , a child who has difficulty perceiving pictorial materials may be expected to have considerable difficulties with any test which uses pictures as part of the elicitation procedure for reasons other than poor linguistic ability . |
| 22 | Similarly , each teacher will make different demands on the learner , and variable standards may be expected . |
| 23 | On the other hand , lateral correlations may be expected to have a negative region , like curve B , since continuity requires the instantaneous transport of fluid across any plane ( by the fluctuations ) to be zero . |
| 24 | Similar facies may be expected further east in the subsurface . |
| 25 | Egoistic traits may be expected to survive if they benefit also the descendants which inherit them , to be weeded out if they benefit the individual at the expense of its offspring ( for example , cannibalizing its brood , or long outlasting its reproductive powers ) ; altruistic traits will tend to survive if they benefit kin which are also transmitting them ( in particular , the mother 's protection of her young ) , to die out if they give the advantage to strangers which are not . |
| 26 | Later on in life those same children may be expected to regard that Bible with such reverence , that the placing of a hand on a copy of it automatically makes their obligation to tell the truth more compelling . |
| 27 | All this requires an enormous amount of work from both parties to the partnership , and that work represents the investment from which dividends may be expected . |
| 28 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 29 | In building the partnership with Company Programmes several tangible benefits may be expected . |
| 30 | Assuming that the contract is not terminated before the end of the contract period and the rate at which charges or expenses will be made in respect of the contract continues unchanged during that period , the deductions to be made in respect of those charges or expenses may be expected to reduce the investment return by an amount approximately equal to that reduction in yield figure . |