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He expected that their talk was going to be long.
It is expected to rain all night tonight.
I hadn't expected anyone to be home.
They were better than I expected.
You're expected to be here before 2:30.
I should've expected it.
That was the last thing I expected to hear.
It was not at all what Tom had expected.
It wasn't at all what Tom had expected.
Solar flash is expected to come.
It didn't cost as much as I expected it to.
I expected them to tell the truth.
Tom told Mary more than he'd expected to tell her.
One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.
You are expected to pass the exam.
Your work comes short of the expected standard.
The train was not so crowded as I had expected.
He passed the test as was expected.
As was expected, he succeeded in winning the prize.
As was expected, he won the prize.
The number of students who were late for school was much smaller than I had expected.
Everything went better than I had expected.
The yen is expected to lose value against the dollar.
As was to be expected, he took the first place.
We expected him to support us.
The movie was interesting, as I had expected.
You are the last person I expected to see here.
Tom expected to leave early in the morning, but he overslept.
She was the last person I expected to see in such a place.
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As expected, you're an interesting person.
More rats than expected are confused. aren't they?
Was it because a war in Annam, modern-day Vietnam, turned out to be more expensive than anyone had expected?
I find out something new about her every day, it seems like, and it's a pretty big thing that I would've never expected out of her.
She is harder to get than I expected.
What was expected to be a peaceful demonstration amongst residents and law enforcement turned deadly when what was believed to be a home-grown militia opened fire.
How is a woman expected to marry when every man that she encounters is spoken for?
I wouldn't have expected anyone else to get involved in this.
A new suitor is expected for dinner.
But Mari was where Sofren least expected.
As expected, Saladin has broken his word.
He says he is expected.
Well, we finished earlier than Ike and I expected.
I expected you to pop up some day.
It was expected that he would get a big telescope, but for unknown reasons this did not happen.
We're expected at noon.
And for Amsler, life returned to normal and he managed as well as could be expected.
A VERDICT IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING.
I hardly expected you to have.
I mean, how can i be expected to love Emily when i.
Oh, she told me a pack of lies about an expected remittance or something.
You see, I kind of expected to find you here alone.
You know, you are entirely different from what I expected.
A rather longer trip than we expected.
I think not a lot of people expected him.
I'd expected a slightly warmer welcome, but. point taken.
It is expected to take about an hour.
I'm not disappointed. It's what I expected.
I'd like to know what you expected to get out of marrying' Lem.
I expected to meet a lot of interesting people and talk to them.
You are expected, Dr. Bruner.
That's what you expected me to do.
Well, that's to be expected in mid-ocean.
L-l-I have a suite of rooms prepared for an old friend who is expected. uh, Prince Sirki.
News and current affairs
The recommendation to enlarge the SDR basket has been warmly backed by Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, and a final decision by the Fund's executive board is expected at the end of the month.
For example, a boost is expected from Japan's reconstruction and supply-chain resumption.
In March, a leaked Bush administration report showed that US emissions were expected to rise almost as fast over the next decade as they did during the previous decade.
The Cup's organization has been exceptional (as was to be expected), with excellent police work giving hooligans hardly a chance.
The whole of Germany has been celebrating a never-ending party with guests from all over the world (which was not expected).
And the German team has put on a wonderful display of heart warming and modern offensive soccer (which nobody could have expected!).
When we gained independence, the world expected great things from Ukraine.
At the same time, it pointed to the need to increase food production to feed the extra two billion people expected to be alive in 2050, and suggested that more investment in agriculture in developing countries is required to improve productivity.
But unemployment has risen even faster and further than expected.
After gaining Security Council support, the US, Europe, and some Arab countries began doing exactly what should be expected of the international community when a government is preparing to butcher its own citizens: prevent the slaughter.
In effect, the political system would again be kicking the can down the road, with real progress on necessary fiscal reforms expected only after the November 2012 presidential election.
Can they, and other Americans who are losing vital services, really be expected to rise above it all and support funding to build new schools in Afghanistan?
The US is expected to become energy self-sufficient in 2020, and to become an oil exporter by 2030.
The failure to mobilize consumer interests in favor of European integration is particularly disappointing for the new member states, which had expected to reap some of the benefits.
Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear - if more fragile than expected - winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.
TOKYO - Historic transformations often happen when least expected.
Even after many rounds of talks, no resolution is in sight, and Hu's visit is not expected to produce any breakthroughs.
In 2006 alone, China added about 93,000 megawatts of coal- fired electricity generating capacity, and this trend is expected to continue as the country tries to meet its huge energy needs.
But, just as the post-Kobe rebuilding did little to end the first of Japan's lost decades, a similar outcome can be expected this time.
Indeed, it is widely expected that a new system of collective leadership will emerge if Kim Jong-il is incapacitated.
In the coming years, superconductors are expected to play a growing role in technology.
The US may have done something few could have expected: united the Shi'ites and the Sunnis in a common cause.
These are hardly trivial amounts, and more renminbi appreciation can be expected in the years to come.
It will, of course, be important who wins the presidency: a candidate expected to continue Bush's foreign policy or someone ready for a new beginning.
In many other areas, continuity can be expected to trump change.