Example sentences of "[was/were] expected [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of people were expected to attend the service for Mr Peacock , who died in his teenage daughter 's arms minutes after UVF gunmen shot him in the back at his north Belfast house . |
| 2 | It is worth noting that although , during the Survey , untrained personnel were expected to assess the condition of books — an activity usually carried out by experts — considerable efforts were made to ensure the accuracy and consistency of the records which they maintained . |
| 3 | Its fuses were expected to blow the lot about five o'clock next morning , Saturday , or at the latest by nine o'clock . |
| 4 | Under the requirements of the 1990 Food Safety Act retailers were expected to improve the standard of hygiene in shops . |
| 5 | In the pro-celebrity event Sir Bryan and Doctor Stevie would provide some leavening of the showbiz and TV personalities , the top sports stars and the controversial public figures who were expected to draw the crowds . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , Roger , ’ he commented , ‘ you were expected to take the road to Dover whilst I was bound for Scotland . |
| 7 | She was , she said , one of the last of the dinosaurs : born of Victorian parents when girls were expected to arrange the flowers and marry well . |
| 8 | Fatherless Shirley knew perfectly well that most British men carved , and that it was a bit of bad luck that she happened to have married into a family where the women were expected to wield the knife . |
| 9 | The guidelines emphasised process skills which were expected to permeate the school curriculum . |
| 10 | We support the views of the County Planning Officers Society and the Government that the 1981 provisions have not been widely used because of ( a ) the financial implications of compensation for minerals planning authorities ( MPAs ) , ( b ) the staffing and resource implications for MPAs who were expected to implement the provisions , and ( c ) the complexity and cumbersome nature of the provisions themselves . |
| 11 | Today they were expected to visit the Play Resource Warehouse and Pilot 's Row Centre , before departing for Belfast . |
| 12 | The parents were expected to accept the authority of the professionals even though there is little evidence to support their judgement . |
| 13 | Any new hands were expected to learn the ropes from the old hands and with the small number of personnel involved together with the expertise of the ex-service officers the system worked quite satisfactorily . |
| 14 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 15 | Three candidates were expected to contest the election , acting President Brazauskas , former President Vytautas Landsbergis and the Lithuanian ambassador to the USA , Stasis Lozaraitis . |
| 16 | In general landowners were expected to work the land and to increase productivity , but not to upset the ecological balance . |
| 17 | The 1955 Le Mans was to be the fastest ever and the two Mercedes of Stirling Moss ( GB ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) were expected to dominate the race . |
| 18 | Ongoing civil wars in both countries were expected to hamper the distribution of food . |
| 19 | In November 1987 , Lord Mackay , the newly appointed Lord Chancellor , ended the practice whereby judges were expected to seek the guidance of the Lord Chancellor 's department before making public statements or taking part in radio or television programmes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the current 24 members in Madrid on Feb. 21 was expected to confirm the decision . |
| 22 | Tunisia 's main Islamic party , Ennahdha , was expected to exploit the conflict in the same way , but has been strangely absent from the streets . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A letter of Wealdhere , bishop of London , to Archbishop Beorhtwald in 704–5 reveals a state of estrangement between Ine and the eastern Saxon rulers , Sigeheard and Swaefred ; in return for the expulsion of the exiles , Ine undertook not to inflict vengeance on the eastern Saxons and a forthcoming council at Brentford , to be attended by the kings and their leading men both ecclesiastical and lay , was expected to resolve the crisis . |
| 27 | Prime Minister John Major was expected to join the revellers on his return from meeting Euro MPs in Strasbourg |
| 28 | The new battalion of Fusiliers was now considered to be of fighting strength and was expected to join the Allies on the Western Front . |
| 29 | The net adjustment of L11,750,000 million was expected to restrict the deficit for the full year to L135,600,000 million , representing 10.7 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , slightly higher than the original budget figure . |
| 30 | In the May congressional elections [ see p. 38908 ] the PUR had won 12 seats and the Conservative Party ( PCE ) of Vice-President-elect Alberto Dahik had won six , but Durán was expected to negotiate the support of at least two more parties . |