Example sentences of "[was/were] expect [verb] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 200,000 members were expected to lose most of their savings in what was described as the worst collapse of a deposit-taking institution in Australia since 1990 . |
| 2 | While Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa were expected to accrue some of the black support which would otherwise have gone to Wilder , the principal beneficiary of Wilder 's withdrawal seemed likely to be front-runner Bill Clinton , who had won considerable black support in his five campaigns for the governorship of Arkansas . |
| 3 | If the receptors for acetylcholine were all the same , agents which blocked any of them were expected to block all of them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Union démocratique pour le progrès sociale ( UDPS ) , was expected to become one of the three legal parties . |
| 7 | Usually , a soldier was expected to pay one-third of his profit to his captain , who then paid one-third of that , in other words one-ninth of the original sum , together with one-third of all profits of his own , to the crown . |
| 8 | Sun was expecting to deliver hundreds of Tsunami boxes around the world the first weekend in November and to have thousands going out the door the beginning of December . |