Example sentences of "[been] expect [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until yesterday , Diana had been expected to spend Christmas with the royals . |
| 2 | She had been expected to invite people in . |
| 3 | The Saudi Arabians , who had been expected to support Venezuela , adopted a low key approach , leading most commentators to suggest that they had been intimidated by Iraq 's belligerence . |
| 4 | Finally , schools have been expected to initiate discussions and reviews of the curriculum a change from the more usual state of affairs with regard to whole curriculum issues ( a point we made earlier ) . |
| 5 | Branson was told that in the week in which the Sex Pistols might have been expected to reach number one the BPI had issued an extraordinary secret directive to the British Market Research Bureau , who compiled the charts , that all chart-return shops connected with record companies should be dropped from the weekly census of best-selling records . |
| 6 | Five of the banks which had been expected to take part in the scheme , however , had on Dec. 20 , 1989 , announced that they would not be participating for commercial reasons , although the following day , John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education and Science , had stated that the objectives , principles and framework of the scheme remained unchanged . |
| 7 | There had been considerable controversy over the method of presidential election , which had originally been expected to take place with up to half a dozen candidates in January 1990 prior to the legislative elections of March-April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ) . |
| 8 | On 8 June 1714 the Electress Sophia of Hanover , who had been expected to succeed Anne , died suddenly , and on 1 August 1714 so did Queen Anne , aged only 49 . |
| 9 | The increased expression of the colon antigen on target cells by IFN-γ treatment might have been expected to enhance anticolon ADCC activity , but there was no significant difference in the colon antigen expression tested by anticolon antibody positive serum samples between the IFN-γ treated and untreated target cells . |
| 10 | Such a boycott might reasonably have been expected to damage SDLP more than other parties but in fact the percentage of first preference votes cast for SDLP rose slightly from 22.1% in 1973 to 23.7% in May 1975 ( see page 26 ) . |
| 11 | This might have been expected to mitigate fear of death ; unfortunately , with the general decay of faith towards the end of the century , it was not only terror of hell that was declining , but also hope of immortality . |
| 12 | Anna Monika , the elder daughter , had been expected to become Principal of the college , and worked hard to acquire the necessary qualifications . |
| 13 | Usually , it is assumed that Clovis must be the monarch in question , but if so the failure to name him is peculiar : his reputation might have been expected to add lustre to the code . |
| 14 | They had been expected to supervise school meals , to distribute milk , to be responsible for children at lunch times . |
| 15 | This increase is particularly impressive since the decline in marriage rates in the 1970s would have been expected to reduce household formation among young people , since historically young married couples have tended to set up their own households , and young single people to remain with their parents . |
| 16 | A £100,980 project to train people in setting up co-operative businesses , which had been expected to secure £45,441 . |
| 17 | It is therefore likely that support for Ælfheah 's cult in London had a political as well as a religious aspect , and so the removal of his relics may indeed have been expected to provoke opposition . |
| 18 | Neither had been expected to raise objections . |
| 19 | The Notts County star had been expected to travel north to last night 's clash at Ewood Park , where money-bags Rovers lost 3-2 against Everton and missed their chance to bounce back to the top of the Premier Division . |
| 20 | Auctioneers nationwide are also angry that they , who have been expected to check ear tags with Cattle Identification Documents on all cattle going through the mart , have not been consulted by the Ministry of Agriculture on the new scheme . |
| 21 | Mr Kingsley Low , general secretary of the British Beekeepers ' Association , said : ‘ We have been expecting to find varroa for some time as it is so widespread on the Continent . |