Example sentences of "expected [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF , however , taking into account another failure in the June test , suspended further drawdowns and negotiations commenced on the conditions for further assistance , expected to include a further devaluation . |
| 2 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
| 3 | The line to Bathgate , reopened to passengers on 24 March 1986 ( including two new stations at Uphall and Livingston ) at a cost of £1.5million shared by six public bodies expected to see a top figure of 400,000 passengers annually . |
| 4 | I expected to see a huge hound , but not a creature like this . |
| 5 | She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face . |
| 6 | The study to which Minerva refers , by Sepkoski et al , compared women who received epidural analgesia , without randomisation , with poorly matched controls who had no pain relief ; matching was based on criteria expected to affect the placental transfer of the local anaesthetic bupivacaine . |
| 7 | The £8m first phase of the Darlington Cross Town Route , expected to attract a European grant of £2m. ; |
| 8 | I expected to find a tiny shrunken corpse . |
| 9 | I expected to find a privileged crew , tolerating me for some positive press . |
| 10 | She is a woman indeed ! — in mind , I mean , & heart-for her person is such , that if you expected to see a pretty woman , you would think her ordinary — if you expected to find an ordinary woman , you would think her pretty ! — But her manners are simple , ardent , impressive … |
| 11 | None of the big guns will be involved as Lisnagarvey , Banbridge and holders Holywood — each expected to reach the floodlit semi-finals of the competition — take time out to assist English national league side East Grinstead in their pre-season preparations . |
| 12 | None of the big guns will be involved as Lisnagarvey , Banbridge and holders Holywood — each expected to reach the floodlit semi-finals of the competition — take time out to assist English national league side East Grinstead in their pre-season preparations . |
| 13 | The government is this lunchtime expected to announce the third wave of Scottish hospitals to be given self governing status . |
| 14 | Leonel Alvarez , rated at about £1 million and expected to play a major part in his country 's World Cup campaign , had been lined up initially on loan , but Derby 's manager Arthur Cox said : ‘ We explored the situation , but it was n't possible . ’ |
| 15 | Dulles diplomatically expressed sympathy for their point of view only to warn that such a strategy was unlikely to succeed unless the United States expected to win a general war . |
| 16 | Before its other Pentium-ready systems — see front page — Unisys Corp will this week announce three new additions to its U 6000/35 Unix server line based on Intel 's 66MHz 486DX2 chip , expected to enhance the old 33MHz box as a workgroup or departmental LAN server and as a distributed server node in an enterprise-wide OLTP network . |
| 17 | Poor Leopold at home was clearly pining for his son : in a touching letter he confessed that he felt sad at times , being unable to hear Wolfgang playing the piano and violin , and each time he approached his home he half expected to hear the familiar sound of his son 's fiddle . |
| 18 | At the meeting donors pledged a total of $865,000,000 in grants and concessionary loans towards the government 's $1,300 million financing requirement for 1990 ; the government expected to cover a further $200,000,000 through private transfers and the remainder through debt rescheduling . |
| 19 | They would be at risk from the vastly increased number of cars and heavy lorries expected to use the new tunnel . |
| 20 | The hearing , expected to last a full day , was originally scheduled for the end of the month but had to be brought forward because of Mr McTear 's worsening condition . |
| 21 | The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start . |
| 22 | Details of the rises , expected to raise an extra £278 million for the NHS , were revealed by Health Minister Dr Brian Mawhinney in a Commons written reply . |
| 23 | In order to harmonize value added tax rates within the EC , VAT on items such as flowers , building land and artworks was increased ( a move expected to raise an extra F2,000 million in revenue in the second half of 1991 ) ; VAT on cars would be reduced to 18.6 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 24 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 25 | The main opposition group , the National League for Democracy , said it expected to have an absolute majority when the final results are compiled in about three weeks . |
| 26 | Mr Jimmy Airlie , secretary of the Ford union side , said : ‘ We expected to get a favourable majority . |
| 27 | When Habitat decided to launch its incredibly successful range of glass tableware in the US , it expected to take the American market by storm . |
| 28 | Progress on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project , expected to become an important additional source of income and employment , was not expected to be affected by the political crisis in February 1990 ; the military government confirmed its intention of proceeding with the scheme under which hydroelectricity was to be generated in Lesotho and water was to be diverted from a catchment area in Lesotho to South Africa 's industrial heartland in the Transvaal [ see pp. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] . |
| 29 | The main points were ( i ) a tax of 0.3 per cent on financial transactions ( ITMF ) , in force until 1994 , but not applying to wage cheques , pension payments and popular savings accounts ; ( ii ) to fight tax evasion an instruction to banks to report in specific cases and at the Finance Minister 's request all movements of individuals ' and companies ' accounts ; ( iii ) the simplification of the tax system with the elimination of three social contributions and their replacement by valued added tax ( VAT ) of between 7 and 10 per cent ; ( iv ) the elimination of taxes on manufactured products , fuel sales and additional income , and their replacement by a selective tax ( the rate of which had yet to be specified ) on cars , alcoholic drinks , fuels , electricity and telecommunications ; ( v ) the elimination of the separate collection of taxes by state and municipal governments and another by municipal government , so that all taxes ( except the ITMF ) would be collected by the federal government and shared with the states and municipalities , expected to produce a real increase in their revenues of 9 and 17 per cent respectively ; and ( vi ) a ban on the contracting of fresh debts by the Federal District , states and the municipalities until the year 2000 . |
| 30 | He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’ |