Example sentences of "was expect [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Qayyum 's election was expected to heighten the political crisis which had ensued since the electoral defeat in July of his party , the Muslim Conference , by a coalition led by the PPP . |
2 | However , with the post of president strengthened under the new constitution , Kaysone was expected to remain the dominant force in Lao politics . |
3 | Even though experienced Australian batsmen like Marsh and Dean Jones ( before his second-innings 150 at Perth ) have flopped badly this summer at international level , perhaps the most disappointing has been Mark Waugh , who after his sensational century on debut against England at Adelaide last year was expected to forge a long-term place in the middle order . |
4 | A running board was the information given to the driver of what , where he was expected to run , what time he was expected to leave the various termini . |
5 | In a visit to Moscow in April Walesa was expected to ask the Soviet Union to follow Western creditors ' lead and reduce Poland 's $1,700 million debt to the Soviet Union . |
6 | Therefore , although a copy of suggested questions was issued to all staff individually , only the head of faculty was expected to submit a written report , on the basis of informal discussion with individual faculty members . |
7 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37948 ] , the newly formed MPD defeated the PAICV and was expected to form the next government after the February presidential elections . |
8 | Indeed , socialism was expected to release the dynamic qualities of the British people that would create the wealth needed to sustain standards of living and world power . |
9 | Clearly Shakespeare 's audience was expected to take a sceptical view of dreams as portents although attributing such beliefs to the ancients . |
10 | The Houston compromise was expected to facilitate the latest round of GATT negotiations on trade in agricultural products which opened in Geneva on July 23 . |
11 | The satellite was expected to earn a further US$1,000 million . |
12 | Buster Watson was expected to win the 100 metres , but I came through and clocked 10.4 seconds for a personal best and a county record , which still stands . |
13 | Once primary standards were attained , the state was expected to attain the secondary standards ‘ within a reasonable time ’ . |
14 | The increasing wind was expected to help the smaller boats , and the leaders for most of the race may be deposed when the handicaps are computed . |
15 | The death of Gaviria Rivero was expected to provoke an new upsurge in violence following two weeks of relative calm since the Medellín cartel 's declaration of a unilateral truce on July 27 . |
16 | As part of this process , education was expected to play a crucial role in changing attitudes , not simply in creating national unity and skills to improve the national economy . |
17 | Widely regarded as the ANC 's most able negotiator , he was expected to play a key role in talks with the government . |
18 | Before going to Beijing , on Oct. 7 Patten was expected to make a key policy speech to the Hong Kong legislative council , reports said . |
19 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
20 | The commission was expected to recommend the on-site destruction of ballistic missiles . |
21 | Japan , which was expected to pay the largest share of the UN 's cost in Cambodia , had announced its intention to organize a donors ' conference in Tokyo before March 1992 . |
22 | The group were accompanied by a slightly older Thakin , Tun Ok ( born 1907 ) who was expected to head the civil government . |
23 | He was expected to superintend a grand banquet looking like this . |
24 | The educational system was expected to produce a higher output of suitable entrants to professional and managerial employment ; one aspect of this was the hope of tapping an unused pool of talent among those lacking educational opportunities . |
25 | Maybe that was why this picture just would n't work : she was expected to produce a suitable work in return for the fellowship that was supposed to be paying her just to paint . |
26 | He was a recently appointed lecturer in English literature and philosophy at London University College , and was expected to have a brilliant future . |
27 | The creation of a new party was also a more exciting enterprise which was expected to have a greater effect on public opinion : for the first twelve months — until the Falklands crisis arrived — the SDP gained much favourable publicity and appeared to be potentially successful . |
28 | For verbal ability , there was expected to be a right field advantage , whereas visuo-spatial ability was expected to have a lesser advantage in the right field indicating left field advantage . |
29 | In order to analyse possible variations in expression , we studied whole blood from a patient with pheochromocytoma , who was expected to have a high level of expression of this gene , obtaining a value four times higher than those from normal subjects ( data submitted but not shown ) . |
30 | European observers very often exaggerated his importance , however ; and the fact that he was expected to accompany the grand vizier on campaign in wartime often drastically reduced his influence on negotiations with foreign diplomats in Constantinople . |