Example sentences of "as [verb] been expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since fuel is a major part of a coal station 's running costs , the fact that prices were not rising nearly as fast as had been expected would have a fundamental impact on the future cost of coal-fired electricity . |
| 2 | The Panel , as had been expected , extended the Place of Safety orders on all nine children for a further twenty-one days . |
| 3 | Terms of the commercial alliance between the two are imprecise , although , as had been expected , Olivetti will use the Alpha RISC in future products . |
| 4 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 5 | Her temperature was not falling as rapidly as had been expected , and this , he feared , had been caused by her determination to get out of bed too soon . |
| 6 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 7 | The cuts , although severe , were not as drastic as had been expected . |
| 8 | Julio Anguita was , as had been expected , re-elected as the secretary general of the PCE , a post he had held since 1988 . |