Example sentences of "were expect [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support . |
| 2 | Conditions were expected to include further liberalization of exchange regulations and the provision of credit and tax changes . |
| 3 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 4 | That would remove the enormous burden which was facing local councils who were expected to compile detailed maps of all the land in their boundaries showing whether it might be contaminated . |
| 5 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 6 | These conditions were expected to meet stiff resistance in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 7 | The members of the Battalion mess were so superior , it seemed , that they were expected to have unlimited funds at their disposal . |