Example sentences of "[be] expect [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As a returner , these are the skills in which you will be expected to be competent before being allowed to return to practice .
2 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 .
3 Digestion can therefore be expected to be greater in mammalian predators , and so it has been found here .
4 The numbers of the skeletal elements are usually expressed as proportions of the numbers that would be expected to be present for a given number of prey individuals , which is usually the minimum number of individuals ( MNI ) .
5 However , certain features can be expected to be present in any viable theory .
6 Moreover , a viral superantigen would be expected to be present in all HIV-infected patients , unless its activity depends on half the HLA phenotypes .
7 " But is it really likely , sir , that the call was intended to delay the finding of the body and to give the killer time to replace the keys ? admittedly Mrs. Bidwell could be expected to be first in the Biology Department this morning when she put out the clean coats .
8 If these strands were antiparallel spin diffusion crosspeaks would be expected to be visible between G2H1 and G5H8 , and vice versa. 5122K data sets were acquired using time proportional phase incrementation ( ref. 31 ) in phase-sensitive mode , with a sweep width of 7,812.5Hz .
9 The relief of strain energy would thus be expected to be proportional to the square of the crack length , or rather depth , and in fact this rough guess is confirmed by calculation .
10 The period for which the product can be expected to be stable under given conditions must also be specified .
11 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 .
12 The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts .
13 we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative .
14 It came from human tissues , and so could reasonably be expected to be harmless to them , unlike the synthetic antibacterial substances such as arsenicals and flavines which were the best known at the time .
15 But you will , nevertheless , be expected to be original in the sense of using your own knowledge and independent judgement to argue an original case .
16 By the nature of your job , you may reasonably be expected to be aware of the standards that are required .
17 It seems that a similar test might be applicable to international legal incapacity ; where a prior treaty is well-known and public , a third party can be expected to be aware of any limitations upon the capacity of a treaty member to enter into a treaty with itself .
18 The Germans , defeated , suffering every form of deprivation , were not and could hardly be expected to be enthusiastic about dismantling the only source of their livelihood and handing it over to the hated Russians .
19 To this end the purchasing department can usually be expected to be responsible for the following :
20 One might interpret this in relation to stronger group orientation , as expected of those who are field-dependent , nevertheless the task might be expected to be easier for those who are more used to visual processing .
21 If , as Brown and Harris ( 1978 ) suggested , early loss acts as a vulnerability factor , rather than being of aetiological significance in its own right , then the relationship between loss and depression would be expected to be strongest in the presence of a psychosocial stressor .
22 Together these viewpoints have distorted the development of English education at the expense of a balanced provision in a system which could be expected to be concerned with the broad world of personal development , preparation for employment and providing for economic and community need , both local and national .
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