Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [be] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without having enough knowledge to judge its magnitude , I can foresee a real problem for the Director of Public Prosecutions and her ancillary services if they are to be expected to join in applications or to provide undertakings or letters for the purpose of facilitating parties in complex civil proceedings who will naturally be anxious to achieve the maximum disclosure by their opponents . |
| 2 | They were to be expected in that , the middle watch , when eyes were gritty with tiredness and the air stale and limbs cold , but it was less usual in a busy forenoon watch as this . |
| 3 | When public opinion is central to the fortunes of a government , unscrupulous expedients to manipulate it are to be expected . |
| 4 | It 's to be expected , it 's what men do . ’ |
| 5 | MAX : It 's to be expected . |
| 6 | HE 'S BLACK SO IT 'S TO BE EXPECTED |
| 7 | They tend to say , oh well , he 's black so it 's to be expected , they 're bound to do that , so when they give you that kind of attitude , you think oh well , blow them , if that 's what they think , why not act like that . |
| 8 | It 's to be expected really . |
| 9 | Still as I say , no , th it 's , it 's a fair comment to say it 's to be expected . |
| 10 | When long hair was the trademark of the hippy and the dropout , it is to be expected that an anti-hippy movement should adopt short hair . |
| 11 | In contrast to the Sahel zone which is classified as semi-arid , Kuwait is arid ( Desertification Map of the World , FAO/Unesco 1977 ) so it is to be expected that desertification is a prominent problem and a major agent of environmental change . |
| 12 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 13 | If weak-tie situations can exist even in the inner-city communities themselves ( L. Milroy ( 1987 : 131 ) discusses the case of Hannah McK from the Clonard area who has a density/multiplexity score of 0 ) , it is to be expected that within the wider social structure of a city , social distance between groups will develop even more . |
| 14 | It is to be expected , therefore , that the major flows of elderly migrants will be either local ( adjusting to changing housing needs ) or from urban to rural areas , perhaps at an interregional scale . |
| 15 | The topic of interpersonal distance has a copious literature in its own right ( see Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) and it is to be expected that any effects due to hemispheric asymmetry will interact with social and personality factors in different ways under different circumstances . |
| 16 | Where children attend different types of schools , it is to be expected that their school attainments will differ . |
| 17 | The majority of applicants qualify for sickness and disability benefit and it is to be expected that the proportion of manual workers receiving such benefits is higher than their corresponding proportion in the general population . |
| 18 | To the idealist , the whole world is a manifestation of a rational pattern in the mind of its Creator , and thus it is to be expected that natural forms should reveal a harmony and an underlying unity . |
| 19 | Grainne said slowly , ‘ It is to be expected that you would despair at times , ’ and Bec responded at once , ‘ Oh no . |
| 20 | It is to be expected that nature will surprise us ; what was significant about Forbes ' work was that he was a pioneer in studying the distribution of marine organisms , finding analogies between going deeper into the sea and going higher on land . |
| 21 | It is to be expected that the criteria by which those in authority decide between the various candidates will be those that they see and most approve of in themselves . |
| 22 | In most instances it is to be expected that ‘ NT ’ and ‘ BT ’ statements should be accompanied by their inverse . |
| 23 | With the United Kingdom membership of the European Community , it is to be expected that there should be some degree of harmonization with our European trading partners and recent legislation in the United Kingdom has been influenced by this . |
| 24 | On the contrary , it is to be expected that sales to and purchases from customers will leave individual market makers holding more or less of particular stocks than they would choose . |
| 25 | ‘ It was to be expected , you know . |
| 26 | Even the most cursory of examinations of the minutes of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party indicates the feverish activity which was occurring in the immediate post-war years and , in these early days , it was to be expected that mistakes would be made and that new directions would be sought . |
| 27 | With economic vision so blinkered it was to be expected that the economy would be allowed to drift with the market situation and without significant and positive government direction . |
| 28 | They were now an old married couple and it was to be expected . |
| 29 | Bunting ( 1978 ) in more general terms disclaims this responsibility and states that with the introduction of high-yielding paddy it was to be expected there were social problems but it was up to the politicians to ‘ do something about it ’ . |
| 30 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |