Example sentences of "[adv] be expect to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Gradual developing defects , cracks , etc. are expected to be remedied by the Insured before they develop to such an extent that the stoppage of the machine and immediate repair which could be construed as breakdown of the machine .
2 Previously it had only been expected to be able to offer a 16-way system in its first go-round .
3 The model predicts that vulnerability factors can only be expected to be revealed amongst women experiencing major difficulties or who have recently experienced a severe event .
4 To some extent this is true , since Michael Chisholm 's research has shown that subsistence land use results in settlements being not more than 1 kilometre ( ½ mile ) or so from most of their land ( Fig 59 ) and hence settlements should perhaps be expected to be 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart .
5 Previous generations were brought up in an age when it was thought not ‘ respectable ’ — especially for women — to enjoy sex ; and men and women over 50 or so were expected to be together ‘ for companionship ’ , to the exclusion of any sexual activity .
6 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 .
7 Because it is inevitable that there will continue to be an increased use of IT within enterprises , existing computer- and telecommunications-based managers clearly would normally be expected to be in a much stronger position than existing library and information centre managers to become the overall managers of all the information-based resources of the firm , IT-based or not , if that is what the company decides it needs .
8 In brief , requisitioning was unpopular , not least since it was often carried out in the period between spring and autumn when trading and fishing conditions might normally be expected to be better than at other times of the year .
9 Again we assume that she would have young children , children who would normally be expected to be living with her .
10 Candidates will normally be expected to be members of the professions allied to medicine .
11 But , in his report , Government inspector H Stephens says : ‘ The banging of car doors , the starting of engines and the noise from car alarms would be introduced close to habitable rooms and adjacent to residents ’ gardens which might normally be expected to be both peaceful and quiet . ’
12 They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area .
13 To this end the purchasing department can usually be expected to be responsible for the following :
14 Novelists can hardly be expected to be au fait with international law and religion .
15 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 .
16 The merits of a planning application lodged in August 1988 can hardly be expected to be judged on the basis of a yet to be prepared and approved Structure Plan Review and District-wide Local Plan , both of which will address a future Development Plan time period .
17 For example , second-hand goods can hardly be expected to be in perfect condition .
18 Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out .
19 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 .
20 By the nature of your job , you may reasonably be expected to be aware of the standards that are required .
21 Even student teachers , who might reasonably be expected to be the least jaundiced and most optimistic informants , are n't happy .
22 Held : The defendants owed to the plaintiff , as a guest , a duty to take all reasonable care to see that the premises were safe , and their failure to light the passage in a London hotel at 11.20 p.m. , when guests might reasonably be expected to be using the passage was a breach of that duty which had resulted in injury to the plaintiff .
23 ‘ ( a ) the manner in which , and purposes for which , the product has been marketed , its get-up , the use of any mark in relation to the product and any instructions for , or warnings with respect to , doing or refraining from doing anything with or in relation to the product ; ( b ) what might reasonably be expected to be done with or in relation to the product ; and ( c ) the time when the product was supplied by its producer to another ; and nothing in this section shall require a defect to be inferred from the fact alone that the safety of a product which is supplied after that time is greater than the safety of the product in question . ’
24 As a professional , an engineer may owe a duty of care to anyone who may reasonably be expected to be affected by his or her professional conduct .
25 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 .
26 Section 3 states : Where work of construction , repair , maintenance or demolition or any other work is done on or in relation to premises , any duty of care owed , because of the doing of the work , to persons who might reasonably be expected to be affected by defects in the state of the premises created by the doing of the work shall not be abated by subsequent disposal of the premises by the person who owed the duty .
27 ( 1 ) Where premises are let under a tenancy which puts on the landlord an obligation to the tenant for the maintenance or repair of the premises , the landlord owes to all persons who might reasonably be expected to be affected by defects in the state of the premises a duty to take such care as is reasonable in all the circumstances to see that they are reasonably safe from personal injury or from damage to their property caused by a relevant defect .
28 ( b ) what might reasonably be expected to be done with or in relation to the product ; and
29 What might reasonably be expected to be done with the product ?
30 While the information assembled here facilitates the design and implementation of interventions that might reasonably be expected to be effective , chapter 9 shows that there is little firm evidence to demonstrate such effectiveness in many specific high-risk situations .
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