Example sentences of "[noun] was expect [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in real terms was estimated at 3.5 per cent during 1989 , but the Central Bank of Barbados reported a decline of 2 per cent in the first six months of 1990 and GDP was expected to show zero growth during 1990 as a whole . |
| 5 | Tietmeyer was expected to succeed Schlesinger in 1993 when the latter reached retirement age . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Belgrade , Lyndall Sachs of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) said the convoy was expected to reach Gorazde today . |
| 8 | The convoy was expected to reach Gorazde this afternoon . |
| 9 | Anyone who could hold a pair of knitting needles was expected to knit socks , balaclava helmets and scarves for the fighting men . |
| 10 | This encounter was reportedly successful , and a second round was expected to take place in early August . |
| 11 | As one of Mr Major 's closest friends — he holidays with him every summer in Spain — Mr Garel-Jones was expected to get promotion to the Cabinet in the summer . |
| 12 | Everybody living within that area was expected to receive warning of an accident within fifteen minutes . |
| 13 | Brazil 's undertaking ( despite its decision not to join the ATPC as a full member ) to control wildcat mining at its Bom Futuro mine was expected to reduce production by cutting the mine 's output from 19,000 tonnes in 1990 to 14,000 tonnes in 1991 . |
| 14 | Although the Government 's recent decision to pull all atomic reactors from the sell-off programme and scrap the construction of three Pressurised Water Reactors was expected to freeze Britain 's civil nuclear programme for at least five years , BNFL yesterday disclosed that it was looking at ways of diversifying into generating power . |
| 15 | Electricity generated by the one remaining PWR was expected to cost 8p ( possibly 10p , according to one report ) a kilowatt hour against 3p for power from a modern coal-fired power station and about 2.5p from one of the advanced gas turbine power stations . |
| 16 | His government was expected to start work without delay on a new constitution enshrining a pluralist democratic system . |
| 17 | The surprising proposal came days before the Swedish government was expected to place Procordia on the market in the first step towards privatisation . |
| 18 | Kuwait , backed by UNIKOM , had already accused Iraq on Aug. 15 of violating the ceasefire in the demilitarized zone between the two countries [ see p. 38164 ] , and this latest incident was expected to renew pressure on Western governments to respond to Kuwaiti requests for a permanent Western military presence in the emirate . |
| 19 | The Senate was expected to follow suit . |
| 20 | The next meeting between the two sides was expected to take place in early May . |
| 21 | The REAG was expected to recommend contracts under the NFFO offering at least 10 to 15 years of premium prices for electricity generated through renewable means . |
| 22 | The VAT increase was expected to cost consumers some R2,000 million a year . |
| 23 | Two French banks , Banque Nationale de Paris and Societe Generale , set up liaison offices in Algiers in the summer of 1989 , and Credit Lyonnais was expected to follow suit shortly . |
| 24 | The cross town route one of seven schemes in the county under threat was expected to attract £2m from the EC towards the £8m needed for the first stage of the road , between McMullen Road and Darlington 's southern bypass . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Analysts added , however , that the company was expected to attract interest from Japan and Europe . |
| 27 | Last year Freedom was expected to cost $15 billion over the next five years ; when it comes back , moderately foreshortened , at $7 billion , why should anyone believe the new price ? |
| 28 | The accession of a united Germany was expected to take place on Oct. 3 . |
| 29 | [ 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 . ] |
| 30 | The British attaché in Berlin was expected to cover Holland and the Scandinavian countries as well as Germany , while his French counterpart was responsible not only for the Reich but for Holland , Belgium and Switzerland , and another had the whole of the Far East as his sphere of activity . |