Example sentences of "[be] expected to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Accountants are expected to be loyal first and foremost to their company , and not to their profession .
2 US companies are expected to be involved in the research , backed by £65 million of EC money .
3 The first products supporting the Telnet/OLTP extensions are expected to be available in the middle of the year .
4 They work six days a week or more , on no fixed terms , with no formal protection and are expected to be available all day long including late into the evening .
5 Some development work has already been done by pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of bottles and caps , and satisfactory child resistant containers are expected to be available for use with liquid medicines in the near future .
6 The new integrated SVQs , probably at levels II and III , are expected to be available in early autumn 1992 .
7 Results for 1990 , unlike so many other retailers ' , are expected to be strong , with profits up on the '89 figure of £64 million .
8 Speeds are expected to be low — less than 20 km/h in most cases — and entrance ramps , changes in surface materials , and tree and shrub planting may be used to ensure compliance .
9 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 .
10 The walkers are expected to be grateful for the left-over street space that is allocated to them and to not object when more is taken for road widening and comer-shaving , or when motorists use the remaining pavement to park on .
11 A friend once remarked : ‘ We are expected to be living sacrifices , but the problem is we keep crawling off the altar . ’
12 Citizens are expected to be law-abiding .
13 Citizens are expected to be law-abiding .
14 Citizens are expected to be law-abiding .
15 If cash flows are expected to be predictable then there will be no special virtue in liquidity and you would earn a higher rate of interest from a straightforward money market deposit .
16 Government backbenchers are expected to be present at all stages and though they are entitled to speak for half the time available on the floor of the House , in committee they are expected neither to speak nor to move amendments but simply to keep voting for the government 's proposals .
17 Representatives of Everton Football Club are expected to be present .
18 A total of 23m workers ( 11.9% of the labour force ) are expected to be jobless in Europe by the end of 1994 .
19 Receptionists are expected to be charming , tactful , diplomatic and capable of dealing with members of the public as well as carrying out the innumerable tasks that ensure the smooth and efficient running of the office .
20 These problems or investigations are expected to be diverse .
21 Working-class children are expected to be independent , travel on the packed buses , take responsibility for siblings , do washing , help sell or ‘ higgle ’ in the market and work on the land .
22 does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided .
23 But for the time being , the first salmon skin shoes are expected to be ready for sale in 8 weeks time .
24 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 ’ .
25 Workers are expected to be able to deal with a range of tasks and managers to be able to respond to immediate changes in demand .
26 The three services differ in their ‘ substitutability ’ — that is , the degree to which informal carers ( other household members , relatives , and friends ) are expected to be able to substitute for the services which might be provided by formal carers ( paid professionals ) ( Arber et al.
27 Personal computer and workstation manufacturers are expected to be able to use the board to build powerful file servers in the $10,000 price bracket .
28 USL declined to reveal pricing until Univel Inc — joint-owned by USL and Novell Inc — rolls out the end-user shrink-wrapped Unixware version in September-October , but as Unigram reported last week ( UX No 389 ) , OEMs are expected to be able to get it out of the door for around $350 .
29 More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register .
30 McLeod 's main rivals are expected to be Valli Harrier Gary Nagel and clubmate and Welsh marathon international Ieaun Ellis .
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