Example sentences of "have be expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunrossness is the part of Shetland which has been expected to bear the most immediate social and economic changes relating to North Sea oil developments . |
| 2 | Suppose that the actual inflation rate is 10 per cent and that this has been expected by all economic agents , with the result that it has been fully accounted for in wage bargaining , in the activities of borrowing and lending and in the tax system . |
| 3 | Perhaps part of the problem is that far too much has been expected of positivist criminology or , alternatively , positivist criminologists have been responsible for fostering too grandiose expectations . |
| 4 | Professor Nicholas Day is the author of an unpublished Public Health Laboratory Service report on the spread of AIDS which has been expected to revise official predictions of heterosexual victims downwards . |
| 5 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 6 | Perhaps too much has been expected of it : education policy is too weak an instrument for counteracting the great weight of inequality in British society . |
| 7 | This is not likely to be an especially serious problem for the assisted party , since if no contribution has been expected , he or she is not likely to be able to pay much in the way of costs to the opponent . |
| 8 | Even though the offences under consideration have a statutory source , they have been the subject of a good deal of judicial development , reflecting the gradual and incremental changes in the social and legal functions that the police force has been expected to undertake since its inception . |
| 9 | ‘ A meeting at a particular place , which has been expected beforehand , amounts in fact to a rendezvous . ’ |
| 10 | New Zealander Chisholm has is expected to be off work for two weeks . |
| 11 | And we can not help but contrast the generous appreciation of Dryden by Eliot , who might have been expected to be temperamentally less in tune with him . |
| 12 | At which the manifestations of blacks and Asians from the floor were as downright as might have been expected . |
| 13 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 14 | The inflation figures , and even pay settlements , have been less awful than might have been expected . |
| 15 | Otherwise , the Commonwealth relationship remained more tranquil under Mrs Thatcher than might have been expected . |
| 16 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |
| 17 | The seeming gains made by the Liberals in the negotiations before the Cabinet agreed to an election — that there should be no joint manifesto , and no pledge to introduce tariffs , merely an impartial inquiry — turned out ( as might have been expected ) to be worthless . |
| 18 | When he returned to the UK he was eventually appointed to the board , but not , as might have been expected , in charge of the refinery side of the business . |
| 19 | Mr Jack Meredith , chairman of the AMA 's public transport committee , said that while bus patronage was declining prior to deregulation , the Tyson report showed that the fall in journeys was between 100 and 200 million more than would have been expected . |
| 20 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 21 | A more concerted action by governments to address this quiet massacre might have been expected , but part of the problem is the lack of a single international forum to deal with the management of small cetaceans . |
| 22 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 23 | The collapse of the Keating empire , and the destruction of much of Kuwait city by the occupying Iraqis , might have been expected to dim Kuwaiti interest in hotel development in Phoenix . |
| 24 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 25 | This might have been expected to mitigate fear of death ; unfortunately , with the general decay of faith towards the end of the century , it was not only terror of hell that was declining , but also hope of immortality . |
| 26 | In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued . |
| 27 | The Great and Good have proved more resilient than might have been expected . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , Yeats could n't have been expected to know that . ’ |
| 29 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 30 | I feared in Rome I detected a great change for the worse , but she has stood the journey well , better than might have been expected , and now , if all remains serene , we may see her build up again . ’ |