Example sentences of "was expect [to-vb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Once primary standards were attained , the state was expected to attain the secondary standards ‘ within a reasonable time ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 12 | The commission was expected to recommend the on-site destruction of ballistic missiles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The group were accompanied by a slightly older Thakin , Tun Ok ( born 1907 ) who was expected to head the civil government . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Following political pressure in the Congress throughout March 1990 the government was expected to alter the proposed privatization terms of Entel , which was to be divided into two companies . |