Example sentences of "was expect [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody living within that area was expected to receive warning of an accident within fifteen minutes . |
| 2 | He was expected to receive life imprisonment in accordance with the government 's new law on terrorism [ see p. 38909 ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was expected to improve Kim 's prospects in his bid for the presidency in the elections in late 1992 or early 1993 , by expanding his area of support , traditionally based in south-western Cholla province , to include Lee 's power base in Kyongsang in the south-east . |
| 5 | It was expected to prompt banks and building societies to further reduce mortgage rates , currently averaging just under 12pc . |
| 6 | Arturo Enrile — who was expected to succeed Abadia when he retired in May 1992 — as army commander , represented the ascendency of the Philippine Military Academy 's class of 1962 . |
| 7 | Tietmeyer was expected to succeed Schlesinger in 1993 when the latter reached retirement age . |
| 8 | In Belgrade , Lyndall Sachs of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) said the convoy was expected to reach Gorazde today . |
| 9 | The convoy was expected to reach Gorazde this afternoon . |
| 10 | Bilateral trade between the two had grown in recent years and was expected to reach $3,200 million in 1990 and $3,500 million in 1991 . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union was South Korea 's second-largest communist trading partner ( after China ) ; in 1989 bilateral trade between the two countries amounted to US$599 million , and in 1990 it was expected to exceed $1,000 million . |
| 12 | The total volume of trade between the two countries reached US$5,800 million in 1991 , and was expected to exceed $10,000 million in 1992 , thereby making South Korea China 's fourth largest trading partner ( after Hong Kong , the USA and Japan ) . |
| 13 | Joan Birkett was taken to Ashington General Hospital 's intensive care unit and was expected to undergo surgery . |
| 14 | The resolution , based on a report submitted by the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on May 2 , was expected to give rise to claims of between US$50,000 million and US$100,000 million . |
| 15 | Eddie Gilfoyle is accused of murdering his wife Paula a fortnight before she was expected to give birth to their first child . |
| 16 | His reading was hesitant owing to a stammer that tied his tongue whenever he was expected to give account of himself before the rest of the class . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the manufacturing sector , principally textiles , which was suffering from a severe shortage of labour , was expected to take advantage of the Madagascan government 's decision to offer incentives to foreign investors . |
| 18 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 19 | This was because the process of decommissioning was expected to take place so many years ahead that its costs were easily discounted into the future . |
| 20 | It remained to be seen whether these four armies could be united before Negus Mikael could blockade Ras Lul Seged and Fitaurari Gelli in Ankober and advance into the plain of Debra Berhan where the first battle was expected to take place . |
| 21 | The next meeting between the two sides was expected to take place in early May . |
| 22 | This encounter was reportedly successful , and a second round was expected to take place in early August . |
| 23 | The accession of a united Germany was expected to take place on Oct. 3 . |
| 24 | The next CODESA meeting was expected to take place in March ; it was agreed that the steering committee would meet monthly until a new constitution was in place . |
| 25 | Legislative elections would take place in two rounds on April 21 and May 2 and the presidential poll was expected to take place in June . |
| 26 | Take the case of a hypothetical economy which had had no experience of inflation in its recent history so that the rate of inflation which was expected to take place over the foreseeable future was zero . |
| 27 | The alliance of his Serbian-dominated federal forces and Serb irregulars was expected to take control of Visegrad last night , after poorly-armed and outnumbered Muslim defenders fled to the hills . |
| 28 | The agreement , yet to be ratified by the US Congress , was expected to take effect by the end of September . |
| 29 | The move which was expected to take effect immediately , followed a warning by US Secretary of State James Baker , recently returned from a tour of Russia , Byelarus , Ukraine and Kazakhstan , that the former Soviet republics faced the threat of an imminent social explosion as a result of food shortages . |
| 30 | [ The " open skies " treaty signed under the auspices of the CSCE in Helsinki in March was expected to take effect in 1993 — see p. 38841 . ] |