Example sentences of "[was/were] expect [to-vb] [adj] [prep] " 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 | Unemployment in the OECD countries was expected to remain stable at an average of 6.5 per cent in 1990 despite a slowdown in growth . |
| 6 | As a consequence of the belief in the unbalanced ratio , demographers advocated the long-term necessity of keeping older people in the work-force , since the birth-rate was expected to remain low despite a wartime upturn . |
| 7 | In 1982 he had helped to found the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front ( UDF ) [ see also p. 33895 ] , and he was expected to remain active in politics . |
| 8 | Later , it was to take on consultative functions ; in practice , most observers expected it to act as a clearing house for mutual trade between its members , which was expected to remain important for some years , and to co-ordinate east European policy toward the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Jose Urbina Lara , leader of the group , who stormed the embassy on 8 March , stayed behind at the airport but was expected to leave later for the Dominican Republic , where he has been granted asylum . |
| 11 | Israel 's Jewish Telegraphic Agency disclosed on Sept. 17 that the current wave of immigration from the Soviet Union was expected to reach 1,000,000 by the end of 1992 . |
| 12 | The effects of this move were that in 1990 Hungary 's trade with the European Communities ( EC ) was expected to exceed that with Hungary 's COMECON partners for the first time . |
| 13 | However , in the medium-term between 1994 and 1997 , GDP growth in the UK was expected to exceed that in Scotland by up to 0.2 per cent . |
| 14 | According to figures released by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and published in Le Monde of May 2 , the number of refugees worldwide was expected to exceed 15,000,000 during 1991 . |
| 15 | Unemployment had risen from 80,000 to 400,000 over the previous 12 months and was expected to exceed 500,000 by the end of 1992 . |
| 16 | Alberts was expected to plead guilty to starting a fire at the Schiller University in Waterloo , south London , where he was studying hotel management . |
| 17 | While the pro-democracy movement which crystallized during street protests in December 1989 and January 1990 [ see pp.37428-29 ] , was expected to press later for more extensive political reforms , its members pronounced themselves " satisfied " with the terms of the agreement . |
| 18 | The new code would be subjected to a three-month consultation period and was expected to become effective in the autumn of 1990 . |
| 19 | The Union démocratique pour le progrès sociale ( UDPS ) , was expected to become one of the three legal parties . |
| 20 | Details of the new force , which was expected to become operational by the end of 1994 , revealed that it would consist of three elements : a Rapid Reaction Force consisting of a multinational corps under UK command ; Main Defence Forces consisting of six multinational corps ( two under German command , one each under US , Netherlands and Belgian command and another under rotating German and Danish command ) ; and Augmentation Forces or reserves . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 23 | 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 . |