Example sentences of "was expect [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was expected to join in class work , but her pain and spasticity increased because of the physical efforts she was making , and because of her stress . |
| 2 | Marriage was expected to last for life and adultery and fornication were punished in the ecclesiastical courts . |
| 3 | The trial was expected to last until Christmas . |
| 4 | Louth , out of the room where Eileen was expected to lie in bed with her son . |
| 5 | Consisting of eighty-five lots of modern Chinese paintings , it was expected to realize in excess of $2million ( NT$50million ) . |
| 6 | Second , he was expected to lead to war the king 's benefice-holders ( vassi ) from within his county . |
| 7 | South Africa ( a founder FAO member which had withdrawn in 1964 ) was expected to apply for readmission , but withdrew after the Organization for African Unity ( OAU ) had indicated that such a move was " premature " . |
| 8 | The number of dead and injured was expected to rise as rescue teams reached more outlying regions cut off due to the widespread destruction of roads and bridges . |
| 9 | A new export-processing zone near Lomé , designed to attract foreign capital and develop non-traditional exports , was expected to come into operation after the publication of enabling decrees by the Council of Ministers in May 1990 . |
| 10 | The protocol disbanding the treaty , which called for the promotion of a gradual shift towards all-European security structures on the basis of agreements achieved at the Paris CSCE ( Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe ) summit in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , was expected to come into effect by the end of the year , once it was ratified by all six parliaments . |
| 11 | The funds thus obtained , which would be repayable over a five-year period , represented only about 15 per cent of the estimated cost of making good damage to infrastructure [ see p. 38362 ] ; most reconstruction funding was expected to come from oil revenues . |
| 12 | For 1990-91 revenues and grants were forecast to increase by P653,000,000 over the revised 1989-90 budget to total P3,318 million , 63 per cent of which was expected to come from mineral exports . |
| 13 | He was actually the oldest son of a farmer and er was expected to stay at home and the firm . |
| 14 | Officials could not say if the Queen Mother was expected to stay in hospital for a second night and did not divulge the nature of the obstruction . |
| 15 | He was expected to slip into management with ease , but instead Moore moved into business , running a pub . |
| 16 | The CEGB 's Magnox series , for instance , was expected to produce on average 75 per cent of its maximum output each year . |
| 17 | In particular in the United Kingdom , a devaluation of the " green pound " ( helped by recent falls in the value of sterling ) was expected to result in price rises of up to 11 per cent . |