Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [was/were] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | It feels to Alice that motherhood means overturning ‘ almost all the marital , housing , professional and personal progress I was expected to make in my 20s . |
| 2 | Legitimately confused about the sort of emancipation they were expected to recommend , provincial nobles bombarded the central authorities with requests for a fuller statement of their intentions . |
| 3 | In the early months of the BEA , these conservative attitudes remained strong ( though experimental work on higher voltage transmission was continued ) , and many CEB men felt it would be best to break the Grid up into three to meet the future demands they were expecting , rather than to raise the voltages and maintain a national system . |
| 4 | All members of the central team at Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) were severely stretched in terms of both time and the range of roles they were expected to encompass , and it was therefore inevitable that some aspects of their job could be successfully accomplished only at the expense of others . |
| 5 | At the helm was a Producer , although in addition to supervising the administrative side he was expected to liaise with the writer on the script and direct the play in the studio . |
| 6 | He was n't to know that the journalist he was expecting had opted to take the longer route overland rather than to fly out on Thursday . |
| 7 | Second half I was expecting to see a lot more action from Leeds at the Leeds fans end part of the ground . |
| 8 | Her father had only married her to give a name to the child she was expecting , and now he would never see it . |
| 9 | Joan 's only comfort was the child she was expecting . |
| 10 | Just four days after completing a 30-hour journey from Edinburgh to Darwin they were expected to overcome a nine-hour time difference and temperatures in the 90 's to beat a Northern Territories Invitation XV . |
| 11 | For many parents it is as though the child they were expecting is dead . |
| 12 | It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay . |
| 13 | DFC agreed to supply RMG with a list of the visitors he was expecting . |
| 14 | Intel told the Wall Streeter it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 15 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 16 | In those early days they were expected to go to chapel every morning ; bells seemed to announce every change in the timetable . |
| 17 | If a man was lucky enough to get a job it was expected that he would use his position to find jobs for others in his family or village . |
| 18 | And if he had a full-time job he was expected to support her and her children . |
| 19 | However , by November it was expected that the 1990 cereal harvest , an important element in gross domestic product ( GDP ) , would be the best since 1987 . |
| 20 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
| 21 | As a leading man in films he was expected to be nothing other than purely masculine . |
| 22 | That the four lead artists got on so well with each other was a distinct advantage in coping with the pressurised working schedules they were expected to maintain over the next year . |
| 23 | From quite an early age I was expected to be somewhere around . |
| 24 | Every week she was expected to clean the house right through and make the dinners , while the grandmother had her outing to Edinburgh : ‘ she had jist t'come in and sit doon like a lady . ’ |
| 25 | But the stroke made none of the impact she was expecting . |
| 26 | She had the awful feeling she was expected to behave in some glittering , unusual way to live up to her father 's memory . |
| 27 | On the morning she was expected in the office for the signing ceremony , Stephen Navin , Virgin 's lawyer , telephoned the singer 's lawyers , only to learn that she had actually signed for a larger sum to CBS the day before . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Someone would have to tell Christopher Court , MP , that the woman he was expecting to marry was dead . |
| 30 | As a Governor he was expected to be continually generous , and it seemed he was always having to spend more money than he could afford . |