Example sentences of "is to be expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | To an extent , the anger is to be expected from a newspaper which has become a strident mouthpiece of conservative elements in the Kremlin leadership . |
| 2 | As is to be expected , the story is a mixed one . |
| 3 | They show the consistency that is to be expected from a ten-year rolling programme . |
| 4 | Its universality is to be expected if all existing organisms have a single ancestor . |
| 5 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 6 | There is only some slight damage to its carrying case , but that is to be expected . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , this opposition is to be expected . ’ |
| 8 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 9 | No increase is to be expected ( and none is found ) when the test context is itself familiar . |
| 10 | If the CR observed in the original context depends on a summation of its own excitatory strength with that controlled by the context , then a decline in the vigour of the CR is to be expected in a test context lacking excitatory strength . |
| 11 | To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific . |
| 12 | Given that pre-trial standards were acceptable , the maintenance of , or an improvement in those standards is to be expected during and at the end of the trial . |
| 13 | When long hair was the trademark of the hippy and the dropout , it is to be expected that an anti-hippy movement should adopt short hair . |
| 14 | It may be realistic to suggest that a certain amount of cellulite is to be expected in women , but severe cases should be taken seriously . |
| 15 | The black hooves are hard and the legs sound , as is to be expected in upland cattle . |
| 16 | In contrast to the Sahel zone which is classified as semi-arid , Kuwait is arid ( Desertification Map of the World , FAO/Unesco 1977 ) so it is to be expected that desertification is a prominent problem and a major agent of environmental change . |
| 17 | As is to be expected such loans are liquid and generate income . |
| 18 | ‘ If the fluctuations in rainfall … continue as they have over approximately the past 90 years , ’ he said , ‘ the development of drought at that time is to be expected ( as it is also in south-eastern Australia and New Zealand ) . ’ |
| 19 | Thus little transformation is to be expected from that direction . |
| 20 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 21 | Similar analyses are required under the 1992 regulations in respect of retail and non-retail funds , which is to be expected , but also in respect of commercial assets , which was less predictable and is a potential source of confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 22 | The fallacy that secondary impotence is to be expected as the male ages is probably more firmly entrenched in our culture than any other misapprehension . |
| 23 | They can take some getting used to and a bit of furtive fumbling is to be expected on the first few occasions . |
| 24 | We are frequently reminded by the media and by professionals of various kinds of the size of the increase which is to be expected in the number of those aged over 75 or 85 years by the end of the century . |
| 25 | The existence of this silent period is to be expected in virtually all natural acquisition settings , but in a formal classroom setting the individual may not be allowed to have a silent period . |
| 26 | Such doubt is to be expected . |
| 27 | The second result of broad interest is that cultural diversity is to be expected even if the underlying cognitive development is rigidly programmed . |
| 28 | While the schemes are voluntary , in the sense that LEAs are not obliged to mount them and pupils are not compulsorily involved , and while the programmes demonstrate the variety that is to be expected from vigorous local initiatives , the significance of TVEI is unmistakable . |
| 29 | There are no special considerations regarding ruggedness of the terminals , except that they should withstand the use which is to be expected in a busy department . |
| 30 | A consequence of seeing rules in this way is that a very high degree of consensus concerning the rule is to be expected among members cf the group or sub-culture in which the rule applies . |