Example sentences of "be expected to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you are expected to be competent with such material even if you feel this is not what you would eventually choose to work with . |
| 2 | This means that actors are expected to be able to control any regional or foreign accent which is natural to them , and deliver a text in what may best be called ‘ the classical style ’ . |
| 3 | Even though the gap between clerical and lay religious intellectuals has closed , with clergy being left behind in some areas , the clerics remain the true cognoscenti in religious matters , and are expected to be so by the laity . |
| 4 | US companies are expected to be involved in the research , backed by £65 million of EC money . |
| 5 | The Southern League team are expected to be expelled from the competition . |
| 6 | Interim figures , due next month , are expected to be £7m against £10.8m , with the year 's results predicted at £20m ( £25.3m ) . |
| 7 | Several viruses are expected to be launched on computer users next week , including Datacrime 2 , which can wipe information from computer hard discs . |
| 8 | Unlike the national services , which are likely to go out to competitive tender , these local and community services are expected to be awarded on the basis of their planned services and financial viability . |
| 9 | In future , the primary rental will be abolished , and the new costs of maintaining their own transmission systems plus paying for the licence are expected to be considerably less expensive . |
| 10 | The special cards are expected to be phased out once the long-anticipated economic reforms begin . |
| 11 | Pagers are expected to be incorporated into telepoint telephones , offsetting the disadvantage of being able to make only outgoing calls . |
| 12 | Even more extraordinary was the fact that Nelson Mandela , the sixth and most eminent member of the group , appeared to have negotiated the terms of the release of his colleagues , who are expected to be freed this weekend . |
| 13 | Two other Kurds in detention are expected to be sent back to Turkey over the weekend . |
| 14 | But in the first 10 months of 1989 alone over 7,000 have arrived , and there are expected to be 10,000 by the end of the year . |
| 15 | Mr Mugabe announced yesterday that the national elections are expected to be held in March . |
| 16 | Full-year results for the bank are expected to be higher than last year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Results this year are expected to be better than last . |
| 19 | A friend once remarked : ‘ We are expected to be living sacrifices , but the problem is we keep crawling off the altar . ’ |
| 20 | In ten years time , more than 600 million people are expected to be severely undernourished . |
| 21 | The expenditure negotiations this autumn are expected to be the toughest for many years . |
| 22 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 23 | There is a time when they are expected to be looked after by family , friends and neighbours because they are too overcome to cope by themselves . |
| 24 | Tesco gave up 15½p to 242p on the week , even though profits for last year are expected to be £123 million up at £540 million . |
| 25 | Two are expected to be launched in May and two in June , with the Yorkshire fund in the lead . |
| 26 | A further 28 stores are expected to be added in the current year . |
| 27 | Both share stakes are expected to be put up for sale over the next few months if the Hafnia merger goes ahead , and could allow a large French company to buy a key stake in the Nordic market . |
| 28 | CHICKEN sales are expected to be at least double those of turkey this Easter and in an attempt to close the gap , the British Turkey Federation are spending £100,000 on a national press campaign stressing ‘ British turkey get 's everyone 's vote ’ . |
| 29 | Of the 35,000 who have been accepted , about 26,000 are expected to be at the start and these will include one of Britain 's most famous athletes , David Bedford , who has slimmed down for his first big race since he retired 11 years ago . |
| 30 | Many City offices are likely to remain closed for some months and at least two — the Baltic Exchange Chambers and the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange — are expected to be demolished as a result of the most powerful IRA explosion since the mainland terror campaign began more than 20 years ago . |