"is not to be expected" is a valid part of a sentence in written English.
It can be used to express something that isn't likely to happen or that is unusual. For example: "An improved performance on the midterm exam is not to be expected after missing multiple study sessions."
Since not all contracts expire simulta geously, a wholesale shake‐up by one fletwork is not to be expected.
This type of performance is not to be expected every week and Flacco has had his struggles this season.
That type of misjudgment is not to be expected of seasoned journalists and is bound to tarnish the program's world-wide reputation for credible reportage.
It is not to be expected that his Roman biographers would treat Hannibal impartially, but Polybius and Dio Cassius give the least-biased accounts.
Of course if someone has an idle question after lingering at the 19th hole, an immediate response is not to be expected.
"It is not to be expected that the increase in capital quotas will drag down the real economy, especially since there is a generous transition period".
And it is not to be expected that the sheer fact C4 pioneered so many things that have now come into the mainstream, means that it is not time to look at something different or at least carefully scrutinise it.
But this level of sophistication is not to be expected of a child who, even if he or she is truthful about important matters, is likely to find the question very awkward and embarrassing.
"But then political enlightenment is not to be expected from a man who maintains that 'I don't see [America] as less evil than the bandit states it has recently fought'".
It might be recognized that in the highly organized conditions of industry now prevailinglargely developed by the corporations themselves, and to which their success is greatly dueit is not to be expected that unemployed men can obtain responsible employment without some credentials proceeding from a former employer.
"It is not to be expected that today's strike will help find solutions for the difficulties the country is facing," said Público, an influential daily, in an editorial.A general strike is scheduled for next Thursday in neighbouring Spain, where the unemployment problem is significantly worse than in Portugal.
