Example sentences of "it was expected that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although Ceausescu had paid most of the country 's $11,000,000 million foreign debt during the 1980s , depriving the Romanians of food for the sake of export revenues , it was expected that Romania would need to raise foreign loans before the end of the year .
2 Following the rejection of the proposals put forward by the ruling Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) in the referendum held on Dec. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 38670 ] , the Governor , Rafael Hernández Colón , announced his intention not to seek re-election in the gubernatorial elections due to be held in November 1992 ; it was expected that Victoria Múñoz Mendoza would be endorsed as the PPD 's candidate for the governorship .
3 It was expected that Zuno would face a retrial , much to the embarrassment of the Mexican government as the case against him included witnesses who had alleged that senior government , military and police officers had been involved in the conspiracy to kill Camarena .
4 In the leadership elections scheduled for mid-February 1992 it was expected that Peres would be challenged by Rabin .
5 It was expected that Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , the UN Secretary-General , US Secretary of State James Baker , and Soviet Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh , would all attend the formal signing .
6 It was expected that talks would resume by the end of June .
7 Forecasts were reduced and by the year 2000 it was expected that 45pc of homes 9.5 million were likely to have a dish or cable TV — 800,000 fewer than first predicted .
8 It was expected that Noriega 's appeal would question the legal basis for trying a foreign head of state taken into custody during a US military invasion and who now claimed to be a prisoner of war .
9 It was expected that President Carlos Saúl Menem would commute any death penalty .
10 By May 1913 it was expected that Emmeline Pankhurst would die from hunger and thirst strikes .
11 With allocation of places based ever more firmly around the notion of parental choice , it was expected that schools would be forced to raise their standards to meet the qualitative expectations of parents .
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