Example sentences of "not be expected " in BNC.

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1 At that time , their drift-netters were operating mostly within the Japanese 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone ( EEZ ) , and the development of larger vessels and the expansion of fishing grounds to include the high seas had not been expected .
2 That I got in — which had not been expected since this was a staunchly Conservative area — was due to two reasons .
3 Secondly , the difficulties of elderly people from different backgrounds are exacerbated by the incipient and institutional racism and abuse in our society , a degree of hostility which had not been expected .
4 Yet education has never guaranteed employment , and whether it has or has not been expected to , we must also consider the other purposes it may serve .
5 We were particularly pleased that Lady More , our President , who had not been expected to speak , said a few words about her late husband 's interest in railways and congatulating us on our achievement .
6 The agreements , particularly that on the reunion of dispersed families , had not been expected by political commentators , but were seen as an important contribution towards providing some fresh momentum for the Premiers ' talks which , after the dramatic progress of December 1991 , had failed to make much progress in succeeding months .
7 What had not been expected , however , was that Alfredo Cristiani , the Arena candidate , would win an outright victory in the first round .
8 He had not been expected to survive .
9 That Saints managed to cause an upset with nothing more than direct running and honest endeavour , bodes well for Great Britain , though the Kiwis can not be expected to enter the Test arena in such a generous mood .
10 ‘ We can not be expected to draft legislation at this stage , ’ he said .
11 ‘ It is my belief that , without an honest money , Soviet citizens can not be expected to respond to the reforms , as they do not have a meaningful incentive , ’ said Mr Angell .
12 Students should not be expected to learn in ‘ cowsheds ’ , they said .
13 They can not be expected to consider the inflationary consequences of their commercial activities .
14 Leadership can not be expected from those quarters .
15 For example , some hunting and gathering peoples , who according to their scheme would not be expected to have slavery , seem to have had large numbers of slaves .
16 When the FA protested , they received a splendid rebuff to the effect that the PFA could not be expected ‘ to regard seriously the opinion that a football player forfeits a common legal right on entering into a professional engagement with a football club ’ .
17 ‘ The opportunities remain good , but miracles can not be expected overnight , ’ he said .
18 LRT has warned that passengers can not be expected to finance the group 's entire five-year £3 billion capital spending programme .
19 Defence counsel Simon Scammell , blaming lax security by both airport and airline , said his client should not be expected to pay all the compensation .
20 Young Whizzquid and his City friends can not be expected to toil on Aunt Agatha 's behalf for nothing , and the spread between offer prices and bid — between what she puts in and what she could take out five minutes later — is around 6% .
21 He knew full well that the only circumstances in which a regional planning manager would not be expected personally to present his Ten Year Business Plan to the President of the Corporation was if he was already earmarked for promotion and it was desired to give visibility to his successor , or if he was on his way out .
22 However , in this case the patinated metal is zinc , which would not be expected to turn black on pickling as zinc has no black corrosion products .
23 The normative requirements of the defence of duress ( discussed in detail in Chapter 6.4 ) ensure that it is restricted to dire and realistic threats which a citizen of reasonable firmness could not be expected to resist .
24 You do not know me and so you can not be expected to take anything on trust .
25 Local staff or voluntary workers can not be expected to have the resources , time or experience to ensure that telecommunications , backdrop , crowd flow , music , lighting and camera positions are available at the right time and in the right way .
26 Given the losses and a circulation that has fallen back to 540,000 , in third place in the race behind the Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph , a premium price could not be expected .
27 For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them .
28 As even the Treasury probably does not have a sufficiently sophisticated model to calculate where exchange rates or interest rates will go , the cleverest entrepreneur can not be expected to give a correct answer .
29 Quick radical solutions to complex human , social , technical and economic problems in such areas can not be expected , but they can be greatly accelerated by the adoption of appropriate financial , administrative and educational systems .
30 17.7 Children can not be expected to learn everything at once .
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