Example sentences of "was expected take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The next meeting between the two sides was expected to take place in early May . |
| 6 | This encounter was reportedly successful , and a second round was expected to take place in early August . |
| 7 | The accession of a united Germany was expected to take place on Oct. 3 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The agreement , yet to be ratified by the US Congress , was expected to take effect by the end of September . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | [ 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 . ] |