Example sentences of "[noun] was expect [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merseyside Fire Brigade was expecting to receive three times more call outs than normal tonight . |
| 2 | A high-speed rail network planned between Seoul and Pusan in the south-east and between Seoul and Mokpo in the south-west was expected to encourage regional development in the relatively underdeveloped south . |
| 3 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
| 4 | The process of identification was expected to take several months but human rights groups were confident that it would provide evidence of indiscriminate killing . |
| 5 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 6 | Despite continued pressure from environmental groups to ban the use of lead , its consumption was expected to reach 4,430,000 tonnes in 1990 , very slightly ahead of the record levels attained in 1989 . |
| 7 | The medical officer of health of the county council was expected to exercise general supervision over the work of the public health and medical staff in the various services including the hospitals , but it was recommended that he should interfere as little as possible in the clinical work , i.e. between doctor and patient . |
| 8 | Mr Whyte plans to visit the research base at Laspi Bay , in the Crimea 20 miles east of Sebastopol , where Brightness was expected to arrive last night , to ask the Russians to drop their plan . |
| 9 | According to a World Bank report published on Sept. 23 , the administration of the US$1,200 million Environment Fund set up under the auspices of the UN was expected to face severe problems stemming from disagreements centring on the degree to which national governments would assume responsibility for environmental projects such as pollution control . |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia remained the only Arab state without diplomatic relations with China , but China had been a weapons supplier to Saudi Arabia since 1985 ; in addition the move was expected to open new links between Saudi Arabia and the Moslem minority in China . |
| 11 | In the first case , the delay was expected to prevent further rehearsal of words late in the word list and as a result reduce the chance of their recall . |
| 12 | The forced repatriation of Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong was expected to begin this week as the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , restated his intention to go ahead with the expulsions . |
| 13 | THE forced repatriation of Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong was expected to begin this week as the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , restated his intention to go ahead with the expulsions . |
| 14 | Franco was expected to seek congressional approval for a two-step reform to simplify the tax system and to counter tax evasion , in order to meet performance targets set by the IMF in the January 1992 agreement [ see pp. 38719-20 ] for the disbursement of credits . |
| 15 | Iraq 's invasion in August of Kuwait , and the Saudi Arabian government 's subsequent decision to invite coalition forces to defend the kingdom was expected to have profound effects on internal political and economic affairs . |
| 16 | Mr Clinton was expected to unveil that strategy at the summit . |
| 17 | The Commission had in fact drawn up a short list of six associations , from which the government was expected to select two groups . |
| 18 | December 1691 , Richard Baxter was expecting to leave this world . |
| 19 | But Mr Major was expected to face stormy Commons scenes as he came under more pressure during Prime Minister 's question time this afternoon . |
| 20 | But Mr Major was expected to face stormy Commons scenes as he came under more pressure during Prime Minister 's question time this afternoon . |
| 21 | Brown was expected to reach next Friday 's finals at least considering his gold medal success in his inaugural European Youth 's tournament last October . |
| 22 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 23 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 24 | Zinc consumption was forecast to reach 5,360,000 tonnes in 1989 , a 2 per cent rise over 1988 levels , while production was expected to total 5,310,000 tonnes , up 1 per cent on 1988 . |
| 25 | The Democratic Party , led by Mancham , with 33.7 per cent of the votes was expected to occupy eight seats on the commission . |