Example sentences of "[was/were] expect [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months . |
| 4 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 5 | Press reports in late November 1989 had stated that more than 200 US members of Congress were expected to sponsor renewed moves to erect protectionist measures against Japan . |
| 6 | Economies of scale and the use of computers were expected to reduce administrative costs . |
| 7 | The members of the Battalion mess were so superior , it seemed , that they were expected to have unlimited funds at their disposal . |
| 8 | Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time . |
| 9 | Under Mary , the Crown set up a sliding scale of military liability , so that poorer members of the community were obliged to supply a suit of armour , spear and bow and arrow , while those worth a thousand pounds or more were expected to provide sixteen horses , sixty suits of armour , fifty helmets , forty pikes , thirty long-bows , twenty bills , and twenty arquebuses . |
| 10 | Repairs were expected to cost 100,000,000 roubles and to take six months . |
| 11 | Bishops and abbots were expected to produce substantial contingents . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In contrast to the homespun approach of Chiles , Martinez was believed to have amassed some $7,000,000 to spend on his November campaign , and was expected to use negative tactics . |
| 14 | The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough . |
| 15 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Spanish and Portuguese membership came only after long talks , and was expected to put greater pressures on the Social and Regional Funds , as well as increasing the costs of the CAP . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | An agreement reached with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced on May 10 was expected to release new credits and to create conditions for the rescheduling of the US$50,000 million debt [ see p. 37222 ] . |
| 24 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The process of identification was expected to take several months but human rights groups were confident that it would provide evidence of indiscriminate killing . |
| 27 | A reconstruction programme , calculated to cost at least US$10,000 million , was expected to take several years . |
| 28 | This was expected to cover four days , arriving Thursday and leaving Sunday . |
| 29 | The Commission had in fact drawn up a short list of six associations , from which the government was expected to select two groups . |
| 30 | The Democratic Party , led by Mancham , with 33.7 per cent of the votes was expected to occupy eight seats on the commission . |