Example sentences of "was expect [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Clearly Shakespeare 's audience was expected to take a sceptical view of dreams as portents although attributing such beliefs to the ancients . |
| 4 | The satellite was expected to earn a further US$1,000 million . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Widely regarded as the ANC 's most able negotiator , he was expected to play a key role in talks with the government . |
| 8 | Before going to Beijing , on Oct. 7 Patten was expected to make a key policy speech to the Hong Kong legislative council , reports said . |
| 9 | He was expected to superintend a grand banquet looking like this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was a recently appointed lecturer in English literature and philosophy at London University College , and was expected to have a brilliant future . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | In the next five years NASA was expecting to spend a further $15 billion on its plans for space station Freedom . |
| 17 | It 's also telling people it was expecting to have an installed Windows 3.1 base of more than 8m systems at the end of ‘ 92 . |