Example sentences of "was expect [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Androgyny was expect to go along with a broad , flexible and effective repertoire of behaviours , and well-adjusted emotions . |
| 2 | Or perhaps , having selected one 's trout from the tank , one was expected to kick it to death , and with traditional Southern courtesy they wished to prevent my Italian loafers getting messed . |
| 3 | During the second phase of expansion , Charles allocated authority to his three sons ; each had a kingdom under Charles , and was expected to guard the borders against hostile invasion . |
| 4 | The FASB issued an exposure draft on the subject in September 1991 , and was expected to issue a statement later this year . |
| 5 | When the event resumed in September 1989 it was expected to finish off the closing submissions which had already started and then gently fade away into history . |
| 6 | This was expected to confirm that subjects would be seen uniformly away from the central strip , but , as described above , revealed the two halves to be of different sensitivity . |
| 7 | The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine . |
| 8 | A meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the current 24 members in Madrid on Feb. 21 was expected to confirm the decision . |
| 9 | This time it is clear that the new foundation was to the Viscount 's detriment and was expected to anger him . |
| 10 | Tunisia 's main Islamic party , Ennahdha , was expected to exploit the conflict in the same way , but has been strangely absent from the streets . |
| 11 | But the company she was temping for was a subsidiary of Bryce International and her boss had left her in no doubt that everyone was expected to attend . |
| 12 | Both vessels had withdrawn from Colombian territorial waters by Jan. 9 and the incident did not prevent a meeting taking place between representatives from Colombia , Peru and Bolivia on Jan. 10 in Santa Cruz , Bolivia , for the purpose of preparing the ground for the international drug summit ( which Bush was expected to attend ) scheduled to begin in the Colombian city of Cartagena on Feb 15 . |
| 13 | The plan allowed for IR4,500,000 million in agricultural investment , and was expected to create 2,000,000 new jobs . |
| 14 | The plan ( see Guitart 1981 ; RENFE 1980m : 53–67 ) was expected to create 50,000 permanent new jobs and aimed to put RENFE on a par with the best European railways within a dozen years . |
| 15 | In nearly all examinations the scripts are not judged simply on the questions that the student has answered , where he has not answered all he was expected to answer . |
| 16 | She wondered for a moment if she was expected to answer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For the average funeral the pall-bearer was expected to perform his duties en route as well as within the church ; whereas at the funerals of the great , the pall-bearers were only called into service once the coffin was at the church and ready to proceed up the nave . |
| 19 | I used the phrase ‘ abuse of power ’ to connote some form of misbehaviour that was wholly incompatible with the judicial role that the judge was expected to perform . |
| 20 | Mr Arafat , had been in Sudan and was expected to visit a guerrilla base in south-east Libya . |
| 21 | He was expected to set an example in knightly exercises , and to show a personal example of prowess in war , although he and his enemies were sufficiently prudent to value him more highly alive than dead , so that a crowned king was rarely killed in battle . |
| 22 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 23 | Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats . |
| 24 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 25 | The voice is a flexible instrument , and in the past a singer was expected to decorate the music suitably and with taste , varying from the occasional grace-note or appoggiatura to effects of coloratura virtuosity . |
| 26 | All this made his instruction in the scriptures and the explanation attached to them more dramatic ; not least his studies in the sacred language which he was expected to acquire . |
| 27 | Lebanon 's presidential palace in Ba'abda is held by Gen Aoun , so Mr Muawad was expected to base the government in Syrian-held West Beirut . |
| 28 | The Frankish king was expected to enforce the treaty imposed upon the Lombards by his father Pepin , and drive them back to their own territories . |
| 29 | Everybody living within that area was expected to receive warning of an accident within fifteen minutes . |
| 30 | He was expected to receive life imprisonment in accordance with the government 's new law on terrorism [ see p. 38909 ] . |