Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] expected [verb] [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 | Though the move could help to speed up investment in a few large projects , there were fears last night that the sudden change in the offshore tax system could hit the bulk of the smaller oil and gas projects which were expected to provide most of the work for the offshore supply industry over the next few years . |
| 3 | Expenditure increases of 15 per cent were envisaged , with special emphasis on education and health , which were expected to absorb 39 per cent of total spending . |
| 4 | Later , it was to take on consultative functions ; in practice , most observers expected it to act as a clearing house for mutual trade between its members , which was expected to remain important for some years , and to co-ordinate east European policy toward the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 5 | During this time conditions were to be worked out for a monitoring scheme and new quota system , which was expected to allow renewed exploitation of certain stocks , notably of minke whales . |
| 6 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On July 30 Bush announced a " new beginning " in US-Soviet relations by promising trade concessions , most notably the granting of MFN status to the Soviet Union which was expected to boost bilateral trade currently estimated at only US$5,000 million annually . |
| 9 | A two-day rave which was expected to attract thirty thousand people has been cancelled . |
| 10 | Details of the new force , which was expected to become operational by the end of 1994 , revealed that it would consist of three elements : a Rapid Reaction Force consisting of a multinational corps under UK command ; Main Defence Forces consisting of six multinational corps ( two under German command , one each under US , Netherlands and Belgian command and another under rotating German and Danish command ) ; and Augmentation Forces or reserves . |
| 11 | That would remove the enormous burden which was facing local councils who were expected to compile detailed maps of all the land in their boundaries showing whether it might be contaminated . |
| 12 | She found , however , that once she had been formally initiated into the movement , she was expected to spend all her time with other female devotees and could no longer speak to , let alone question , the leaders ( who were all male ) . |
| 13 | She confirmed that she had resigned because she was expected to work five days a week instead of the three initially agreed . |
| 14 | He wore a pleased but modest look and Lili looked as though she knew she was expected to appear proud . |
| 15 | The organization for the event fell to Sybille , who was expected to invite some of her friends and family to lend an authentic French air to the proceedings . |
| 16 | The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain . |
| 17 | Out on the road , we were expected to have enough basic journalistic training and common-sense to ask the right questions . |
| 18 | We were expected to have enough initiative to overcome the physical problems , maybe when the streets were under water or covered in snow , to get to our appointment on time . |
| 19 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
| 20 | Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support . |
| 21 | The members of the Battalion mess were so superior , it seemed , that they were expected to have unlimited funds at their disposal . |
| 22 | If the receptors for acetylcholine were all the same , agents which blocked any of them were expected to block all of them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was expected to reach 5,400 million by mid-1991 and 6,400 million by 2001 . |
| 25 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
| 26 | In 1982 he had helped to found the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front ( UDF ) [ see also p. 33895 ] , and he was expected to remain active in politics . |
| 27 | As far as the Herbert interest was concerned , therefore , Gloucester was put at the head of an existing connection which he was expected to do little to modify . |
| 28 | As far as the Herbert interest was concerned , therefore , Gloucester was put at the head of an existing connection which he was expected to do little to modify . |
| 29 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 30 | He was expected to employ six able well-experienced and sufficient miners for nine months in each year , and as soon as " Tenn Tunns " be raised , to employ ten able well-experienced workmen to dress the ore . |