Example sentences of "[was/were] expect [to-vb] [adj] " 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 | In the event , the shares were expected to open two or three dollars up on the $79.615 close to Monday trading . |
| 6 | Young workers were expected to do unpaid extra work when business was slack . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All Divisions were expected to do this , which would enable National Council to consider the level of Divisional grants . |
| 9 | Some 200,000 members were expected to lose most of their savings in what was described as the worst collapse of a deposit-taking institution in Australia since 1990 . |
| 10 | While Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa were expected to accrue some of the black support which would otherwise have gone to Wilder , the principal beneficiary of Wilder 's withdrawal seemed likely to be front-runner Bill Clinton , who had won considerable black support in his five campaigns for the governorship of Arkansas . |
| 11 | If the receptors for acetylcholine were all the same , agents which blocked any of them were expected to block all of them . |
| 12 | The students were expected to spend half an hour at the beginning of each day in quiet study and prayer , and there were private interviews with the tutors about the candidates spiritual life , growth and development . |
| 13 | Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months . |
| 14 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 15 | Least noticeably but perhaps most dangerously , the Palestinians living inside the 1949 Armistice Line , barely 11 per cent of the Israeli population at the time , were nevertheless growing faster than the Jewish community and were expected to exceed 20 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 16 | The force would eventually form part of the overall UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , whose numbers were expected to reach some 10,000 by mid-1992 . |
| 17 | These issues were expected to receive close attention when the treaty was submitted to the US Congress . |
| 18 | Junior doctors in hospital casualty departments were expected to refer all such suspicious cases to a more senior doctor — a consultant paediatrician — with expertise in child health . |
| 19 | IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus had said on April 15 that the republics were expected to need more than US$100,000 million over the next four years . |
| 20 | In the early stages of independence , former colonies were expected to need some military assistance through defence agreements , supplies of military equipment and provision of training teams . |
| 21 | Fourth quarter results , however , were expected to reflect increased oil import prices and a drop in tourist numbers . |
| 22 | The last two projects were expected to meet stiff congressional resistance . |
| 23 | These conditions were expected to meet stiff resistance in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 24 | Expenditure increases of 15 per cent were envisaged , with special emphasis on education and health , which were expected to absorb 39 per cent of total spending . |
| 25 | Press reports in late November 1989 had stated that more than 200 US members of Congress were expected to sponsor renewed moves to erect protectionist measures against Japan . |
| 26 | Economies of scale and the use of computers were expected to reduce administrative costs . |
| 27 | The members of the Battalion mess were so superior , it seemed , that they were expected to have unlimited funds at their disposal . |
| 28 | Out on the road , we were expected to have enough basic journalistic training and common-sense to ask the right questions . |
| 29 | We were expected to have enough initiative to overcome the physical problems , maybe when the streets were under water or covered in snow , to get to our appointment on time . |
| 30 | And many will remember the dread feeling of uncertainty after Dunkirk when German Panzer divisions were expected to land any day . |