Example sentences of "was expected take [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As a Scot , I was expected to take New Year 's Day as leave rather than Christmas . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Following the Supreme 's Court 's endorsement of Noonan 's ruling , the case was due to return to the Appeals Court to be reviewed by a panel of judges , a process which was expected to take several months . |
4 | A reconstruction programme , calculated to cost at least US$10,000 million , was expected to take several years . |
5 | The process of identification was expected to take several months but human rights groups were confident that it would provide evidence of indiscriminate killing . |
6 | Attlee thought that the coalition should continue until after the end of the war with Japan , however long that should take — and , as we have seen , it was expected to take another eighteen months after the collapse of Nazi Germany . |