to be expected

As is to be expected, these aren’t your average gym clothes.

It’s to be expected, he cautioned, that industry groups would complain about the rules that dictate their practices.

For Wales, perhaps it was to be expected that a new broom would sweep clean.

“Some of that’s to be expected. Some of it was sloppiness, some of it was poor spacing, some it was poor execution. The reason I’m not going to read too much into it is because I think our guys competed tonight and they played extremely hard. I also think Charlotte played very sloppy. That’s not to make an excuse. That’s just the reality of just having six days off as a group and integrating new pieces.”

What is going on was to be expected but this does not mean that it is less striking or horrible.