Example sentences of "[been] expected [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there were violent clashes between rioters and police in Osaka in October 1990 [ see p. 37780 ] , there were fewer attempts by the radical left than had been expected to disrupt the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Akihito . |
| 2 | Judging by the problems caused by regional specialization when an area 's specialism went into decline , this shift might have been expected to lessen the degree of uneven development . |
| 3 | Frame had since 1961 been a dynamic and highly successful liaison officer , and could reasonably have been expected to serve the BDDA for several more years . |
| 4 | Even the independent bookmakers , who might have been expected to welcome the opportunity to extend their hours , were largely against the reform . |
| 5 | The head of the ANC 's main political rival , Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party , had also been expected to attend the funeral , giving him and Mr Mandela a rare opportunity to meet . |
| 6 | National newspapers had been expected to publish the declaration , code , and announcement of a system of readers ' representatives to take up complaints from the public in today 's newspapers . |
| 7 | He did not know and could not have been expected to know the qualities of petrol . |
| 8 | Mr Yeltsin had been expected to win the referendum , but not resoundingly . |
| 9 | Mr Goddard , a former mayor of Phoenix who had been expected to win the November race easily , first lowered the tone by comparing Mr Symington to Charles Keating , the financier at the heart of the Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster . |
| 10 | A joint venture between competitors or potential competitors may infringe Article 85 of the Treaty of Rome if the participants could reasonably have been expected to enter the market individually , and in such cases the creation of an EEIG will not obviate the need to seek an exemption , or at least a comfort letter , from the Commission . |
| 11 | Wimbledon had been expected to bear the brunt of the FA 's displeasure because of their past record . |
| 12 | The unprecedented level of media attention on the Royal Family in recent months had been expected to boost the figure above last year when 21 million viewers tuned in . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the reduction in IGFBP-1 values after steroid treatment might have been expected to increase the availability of IGF-I for growth . |
| 14 | McKeown ( 1976 ) and Hollingsworth ( 1982 ) insist that mortality response was the key to understanding the beginning of the demographic transition , particularly its continued decline despite the rapid population growth and urbanization of the nineteenth century , which might have been expected to raise the death rate . |