Example sentences of "was expect [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
2 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
3 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
4 | Saudi Arabia remained the only Arab state without diplomatic relations with China , but China had been a weapons supplier to Saudi Arabia since 1985 ; in addition the move was expected to open new links between Saudi Arabia and the Moslem minority in China . |
5 | Spanish and Portuguese membership came only after long talks , and was expected to put greater pressures on the Social and Regional Funds , as well as increasing the costs of the CAP . |
6 | Despite continued pressure from environmental groups to ban the use of lead , its consumption was expected to reach 4,430,000 tonnes in 1990 , very slightly ahead of the record levels attained in 1989 . |
7 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
8 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
9 | The Democratic Party , led by Mancham , with 33.7 per cent of the votes was expected to occupy eight seats on the commission . |
10 | The conference , due to last 40 days , was expected to make fundamental decisions about a new constitution in preparation for the country 's first multiparty elections , scheduled for 1992 . |
11 | Iraq 's invasion in August of Kuwait , and the Saudi Arabian government 's subsequent decision to invite coalition forces to defend the kingdom was expected to have profound effects on internal political and economic affairs . |
12 | The Congress on Feb. 25 , in a decision that was expected to boost domestic savings by US$1,000 million , approved reforms to the country 's pension and housing funds . |
13 | The country 's biggest oil refinery , Ahmadi , which resumed operations on Aug. 27 , was expected to meet domestic demands by processing up to 130,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) of crude oil . |