Example sentences of "[pron] were expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Out on the road , we were expected to have enough basic journalistic training and common-sense to ask the right questions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The members of the Battalion mess were so superior , it seemed , that they were expected to have unlimited funds at their disposal . |
| 8 | If the receptors for acetylcholine were all the same , agents which blocked any of them were expected to block all of them . |