Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] expect to be " in BNC.

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1 Meetings therefore always took place at five-thirty in the evening , a time when a politician , a lawyer or a captain of industry might be expected to be able to get away from his office for an important private occasion .
2 A gene regulating testis determination and derived from a common mammalian ancestor would be expected to be conserved in sequence between eutherians and marsupials and to map to the marsupial Y chromosome .
3 It requires the cooperation of every citizen , and no law which unreasonably infringes the freedoms of that citizen can be expected to be effective .
4 This is especially likely to be the case with short essays and exam answers , where you clearly can not be expected to be " original " in the sense in which a researcher or expert in the field might be expected to be .
5 Since the function of such a court is solely judicial and in no way administrative , the rule which precludes interest or bias on the part of the judge may be expected to be enforced more , rather than less , strictly than in the case of a licensing board , which is primarily an administrative body .
6 The final effect of temperature on timing error may be expected to be in the region of 1000ppm per degree maximum which corresponds to approximately 1½ minutes per degree in the finished circuit .
7 It is important to note that the Act does not require all landowners to fence against the highway : in moorland areas of Wales and the north of England this would be an intolerable burden and in such areas a motorist must be expected to be on the look out for straying livestock .
8 The greatest effect of social mobility might be expected to be in the middle of the range , perhaps when fathers move from manual to non-manual jobs , for example .
9 The motivation for the project was : staff recognition of a need to evaluate whether children made any real progress in their written work between 1st year infants and 4th year juniors ; whether too much was expected too soon , and whether it is possible to decide an age when the average child could be expected to be competent in certain skills ; whether the language curriculum throughout the school was sufficiently broad in terms of coverage or whether there was unnecessary duplication ; whether the most able children were being stretched enough ; whether there was any justification for ‘ setting ’ across classes for certain kinds of work ; whether pooling teacher energy and resources on a common topic increased intra-staff awareness and co-operation , and co-operation and interest among children from different classes ; and finally , whether whole-school topic work appeared sufficiently worthwhile in terms of children 's learning experiences to warrant repetition at some future date .
10 Moreover , a viral superantigen would be expected to be present in all HIV-infected patients , unless its activity depends on half the HLA phenotypes .
11 The debate on the BBC 's future , prior to the renewal of its charter in 1996 , is another area where his influence can be expected to be felt .
12 For most pupils , however , assistance can be expected to be found from within the school 's own resources .
13 Thus most people dying of asthma should be expected to be old .
14 The fact that there is a difference comes as no surprise , after all , a completely empty , uneventful drive through a junction would be expected to be both less memorable and less risky than an occasion when the junction was full of traffic .
15 Size of establishment would be expected to be related to amount of training undertaken though in practice many libraries ( and not only small libraries ) appeared to undertake both less training and far less systematic training than must be considered ideal given that all staff in any size library will have training needs :
16 Notes : All members of this group can be expected to be aged 60 or more and approximately 66 per cent female .
17 The period for which the product can be expected to be stable under given conditions must also be specified .
18 Conversely , where existing competition is light and the traditional catchment area of the firm large , a wide restraint may be expected to be upheld ; and ( 4 ) a prohibition against accepting instructions from any person who has at any time , or over a long period , been a client of the outgoing partner 's former firm .
19 From a different perspective such repeated defects of urban policy might be expected to be overcome through local community involvement , yet again the three contributions here demonstrate a complexity which belies naive aspirations .
20 Close-fitted carpet on a well-lit passageway suggested the occupants were more affluent than the average student could be expected to be , unless of course he made a living from the less commendable pursuits some students were reputed to follow !
21 As the OECD research group on traffic safety in residential areas has commented , ‘ signing regulations should be supported by engineering structural measures as enforcement would be expected to be minimal . ’
22 Over three-quarters of the recruitment would be expected to be from people already living in the Region .
23 Signs in use for many referents reflect one or two of these properties , and thus we should not be surprised that comparisons of sign lists result in such a high degree of similarity , as the appearance , movement , and use of an object can be expected to be similar across different cultures .
24 Class bias might be expected to be less in the US , where tertiary education is less restricted and social class is often claimed to be less important .
25 In short , he is all that a medieval paladin might be expected to be .
26 In certain circumstances it may become necessary to seek waivers from the Law Society , as for instance : ( 1 ) where the new office is no more than a consulting room open for restricted periods , when a waiver would normally be granted provided ( a ) the opening hours are sufficiently advertised ; ( b ) during those hours there is always in attendance a person duly qualified to manage or supervise the office and that all correspondence is seen by a partner of the firm ; and ( c ) the business of the consultancy is accounted for centrally and not as a separate business ; or ( 2 ) where the new office is an annexe ( whether housing a separate department or otherwise ) near to the main office , when a waiver could be expected to be granted if ( a ) a common switchboard is used for both main office and annexe ; ( b ) accounts are centralised ; ( c ) correspondence is attended to in the main office ; and ( d ) clients are asked to address correspondence to the main office .
27 In addition , coelocentesis does not involve puncture of the amniotic membrane and therefore the risk of direct trauma to the embryo or chronic amniotic fluid leakage would be expected to be lower than with amniocentesis .
28 But to our disgust , and as Nigel mentioned , also that we have seen a demise of factory inspectors , and this is borne out by the fact that figures at the present time show that an average workplace can be expected to be visited once in eleven years .
29 Growing in excess of 400mm , Synodontis schall can be expected to be quite long lived , provided it is well cared for in the aquarium .
30 The RVE for an amorphous polymer may be expected to be no more than 10 nanometres or so .
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