Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] expect [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The French government tried to save money by accrediting the consul-general it sent to Japan in 1858 also as chargé d'affaires ( a device quite often used outside Europe , mainly in minor Latin-American states where it was expected that political relations would be very much subordinate to commercial ones ) . |
2 | Legal proceeding were started against Barak , Stepan and Colotka , and it was expected that many others would be charged in due course . |
3 | It was expected that due to this left hemispheric specialisation for verbal ability , the right field advantage would be reduced for the trigram task when subjects were shadowing auditory verbal material . |
4 | Although both the Reagan and the Bush administrations had previously waived this provision , it was expected that senior Democratic senators would oppose another suspension of the certification requirement . |
5 | It was expected that some sort of legal action would follow . |
6 | It was expected that some 40-50 mergers per year would fall due for examination in this way . |
7 | It was expected that some of the larger projects approved by the Gandhi government would be postponed . |
8 | It was expected that these would be first seen at a higher value of the exposure and that in every case a roughly linear graph segment would follow the point at which the subject was fully seen . |
9 | Major improvements were being noted two years later , and it was expected that these would be carried further when the Polytechnic was transferred to the East Sussex Local Authority following county boundary changes . |
10 | It was expected that these service engineers would have sufficient parts from their own stocks to do simple repairs , and the theory was that major parts could be provided from Argent Distributors ' warehouse within 48 hours . |
11 | By Aug. 24 , when the Security Council Military Staff Committee met , the USA had drafted a proposed resolution which would give UN legitimacy to the use of the necessary force to maintain a blockade , but which would leave the decision on such interventions to the naval command ( i.e. to the US Navy , in practice , or the British or French , since it was expected that those other countries which had contributed naval forces on a smaller scale would wish to avoid this controversial step ) . |
12 | At the same time it was expected that accompanying memoirs would be published explaining in detail the geology shown on the maps . |
13 | It was expected that this would open the way for further World Bank and European Community lending ( Yugoslavia having already requested $500 million in aid to recapitalize its banking system , and $1,000 million in medium-term economic assistance over three years , from the Group of 24 Western countries and Japan ) . |