Example sentences of "was expect [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan ( see Guitart 1981 ; RENFE 1980m : 53–67 ) was expected to create 50,000 permanent new jobs and aimed to put RENFE on a par with the best European railways within a dozen years . |
| 2 | The plan allowed for IR4,500,000 million in agricultural investment , and was expected to create 2,000,000 new jobs . |
| 3 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
| 4 | The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough . |
| 5 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 6 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 7 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 8 | He was expected to employ six able well-experienced and sufficient miners for nine months in each year , and as soon as " Tenn Tunns " be raised , to employ ten able well-experienced workmen to dress the ore . |
| 9 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
| 10 | Their promised availability and utilisation was such that one new vehicle was expected to replace two old ones , and thus considerable cost savings were ensured . |
| 11 | The overall budget deficit was expected to represent 5.1 per cent of GDP , to be financed from domestic borrowings . |
| 12 | Income was set at 20,881,900 million ptas and expenditure at 23,497,200 million ptas ; the resulting deficit was expected to represent 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) ( US$1.00=105.048 ptas as at Sept. 30 , 1991 ) . |
| 13 | Despite continued pressure from environmental groups to ban the use of lead , its consumption was expected to reach 4,430,000 tonnes in 1990 , very slightly ahead of the record levels attained in 1989 . |
| 14 | Its new report said that total growth was expected to reach 3.6 per cent in 1993 . |
| 15 | Inflation had risen from 3.2 per cent in April to 7.8 per cent in May and was expected to reach 10 per cent in June . |
| 16 | It was expected to reach 5,400 million by mid-1991 and 6,400 million by 2001 . |
| 17 | Israel 's Jewish Telegraphic Agency disclosed on Sept. 17 that the current wave of immigration from the Soviet Union was expected to reach 1,000,000 by the end of 1992 . |
| 18 | According to figures released by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and published in Le Monde of May 2 , the number of refugees worldwide was expected to exceed 15,000,000 during 1991 . |
| 19 | The number taking part was expected to exceed 100,000 . |
| 20 | Unemployment had risen from 80,000 to 400,000 over the previous 12 months and was expected to exceed 500,000 by the end of 1992 . |
| 21 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
| 22 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
| 23 | He was expected to miss six week 's play . |
| 24 | This was expected to cover four days , arriving Thursday and leaving Sunday . |
| 25 | The Commission had in fact drawn up a short list of six associations , from which the government was expected to select two groups . |
| 26 | The Democratic Party , led by Mancham , with 33.7 per cent of the votes was expected to occupy eight seats on the commission . |
| 27 | The Parti Seselwa , led by Wavel Ramkalawan , which won 4.4 per cent of votes , was expected to secure one seat under a " best losers " system . |
| 28 | The Union démocratique pour le progrès sociale ( UDPS ) , was expected to become one of the three legal parties . |
| 29 | She confirmed that she had resigned because she was expected to work five days a week instead of the three initially agreed . |
| 30 | Usually , a soldier was expected to pay one-third of his profit to his captain , who then paid one-third of that , in other words one-ninth of the original sum , together with one-third of all profits of his own , to the crown . |