As to be expected, the time to decline is less when life expectancy is 75 than when it is 85 years.
As is to be expected, the Venice Mostra declined to kick up any fuss.
But perhaps that is to be expected: the rabbi said their circumcisions were common knowledge.
Their anger was to be expected; the sense of betrayal was more striking.
Some negative reaction was to be expected; the World Bank, like many large bureaucracies, is resistant to change.
Perhaps that was to be expected; the show was certainly different, and its emphasis on difference, racial and sexual, was undisguised.
As was to be expected, the blogosphere is full of people saying that Arlen Specter was always a Democrat and now he's simply proved it.
I can already hear the politicians screaming no, but that's to be expected: the thing is to take the argument directly to the people.
Mr Blair's academies have broadly improved, although that is perhaps to be expected: the worst schools got new head teachers and had nowhere to go but up.
When it can be justified that major pressure buildups are not to be expected, the containment may be any functional form of airtight structure.
