Example sentences of "was expected [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levy Mwanawasa , a constitutional lawyer , was named as Vice-President and Leader of the National Assembly , and was expected to act as a prime minister , running day-to-day affairs . |
| 2 | She was expected to join in class work , but her pain and spasticity increased because of the physical efforts she was making , and because of her stress . |
| 3 | GDP growth was projected at 5.2 per cent in 1990/91 , compared with 5 per cent the previous year , and inflation was expected to fall to 7.5 per cent . |
| 4 | The economy was predicted to expand by 8 per cent in 1992 , its ninth year of consecutive growth , while inflation was expected to fall to around 13 per cent , from 18.7 per cent at the end of 1991 . |
| 5 | Unemployment , however , was expected to fall from 8.1 per cent in 1988 to 7.9 per cent in 1989 due mainly to increased job opportunities in the manufacturing sector , whose contribution to GDP was estimated to have expanded from 24.4 per cent in 1988 to 25.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 6 | The amount payable in annual damage compensation to West German landowners was expected to fall by more than $20,000,000 . |
| 7 | Gross domestic product was expected to fall by 0.2-0.5 per cent in 1991 ( compared with increases of 2.1 per cent in 1989 and 0.9 per cent in 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Despite earlier pessimistic predictions , gross domestic product ( GDP ) rose by 0.3 per cent in 1990 , but was expected to fall by 1.9 per cent in 1991 . |
| 9 | GDP fell by 9 per cent in 1991 and was expected to fall by a further 14 per cent in 1992 , which may well be an underestimate . |
| 10 | ETA Ardneavie 2200/22/6 , her travel instructions stated precisely — which really meant that Wren Violet T. McKeown was expected to arrive at her destination by 10 P.M. on the twenty-second day of June . |
| 11 | At 1200 hrs on 23 May , 1st Guards Brigade put out a warning order that the Army commander was expected to arrive at the battalion HQ of 3rd Grenadier Guards at 1130 hrs the following morning , where he " wishes to see the Brigade commander and COs " . |
| 12 | Left-wing parties were highly critical of the proposals , and called instead for increases in public spending to reduce unemployment , which was expected to remain at around 10 per cent . |
| 13 | Growth in GNP was expected to slow to 2.2 per cent in 1991 and , although inflation might continue to decline , unemployment ( which had fallen from over 17 per cent in 1985-87 to 14 per cent in 1990 ) was expected to remain above the European average . |
| 14 | At the helm was a Producer , although in addition to supervising the administrative side he was expected to liaise with the writer on the script and direct the play in the studio . |
| 15 | She was the one who was expected to liaise with civic authorities and heads of other churches . |
| 16 | Marriage was expected to last for life and adultery and fornication were punished in the ecclesiastical courts . |
| 17 | The trial was expected to last at least a year . |
| 18 | The trial was expected to last until Christmas . |
| 19 | The ban followed the Chernobyl accident , and was expected to last until at least the end of the century . |
| 20 | He soon realised , though , that he was expected to listen to me as well . |
| 21 | Louth , out of the room where Eileen was expected to lie in bed with her son . |
| 22 | Jean-Michel Tekam , who was sentenced in absentia during the April 1990 Yondo Black trial for subversion [ see p. 37477 ] was expected to return on Aug. 24 . |
| 23 | Perhaps most alarmingly of all from a Russian point of view , the population of these republics had been increasing very much more rapidly than the all-union average and on some projections was expected to account for 25–30 per cent of the total Soviet population by the end of the century ( the USSR was already the world 's fifth largest Muslim state ) . |
| 24 | The foreign trade growth rate was forecast to reach 18.8 per cent , of which the growth in exports was expected to account for 36 per cent and commercial imports 13.2 per cent . |
| 25 | The latter was expected to convene in March 1991 , when one of its main tasks would be to recommend the reallocation of powers among the various levels of government . |
| 26 | Unemployment stood at 9.8 per cent , industrial output was down and a 1990 hard-currency trade surplus of nearly US$4,000 million was expected to turn into a $1,000 million deficit in 1991 . |
| 27 | The Fund 's bi-annual World Economic Outlook released on Sept. 19 warned that although the impact of higher oil prices on industrialized countries was likely to be modest , overall world economic growth was expected to slow to 2 per cent in 1990 ( from 3 per cent in 1989 ) as a result of uncertainties stemming from the Gulf crisis . |
| 28 | Growth in GNP was expected to slow to 2.2 per cent in 1991 and , although inflation might continue to decline , unemployment ( which had fallen from over 17 per cent in 1985-87 to 14 per cent in 1990 ) was expected to remain above the European average . |
| 29 | Doubts about a rapid economic up-turn had been expressed by US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady , who at a parallel meeting of G-7 finance ministers indicated that economic growth in the US was expected to slow in the second quarter of 1992 although longer-term prospects were more hopeful . |
| 30 | And Brotherhood was the only object one was expected to conform to in becoming a member . |