Example sentences of "were expect [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support . |
| 2 | Conditions were expected to include further liberalization of exchange regulations and the provision of credit and tax changes . |
| 3 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 4 | That would remove the enormous burden which was facing local councils who were expected to compile detailed maps of all the land in their boundaries showing whether it might be contaminated . |
| 5 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 6 | Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months . |
| 7 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 8 | These issues were expected to receive close attention when the treaty was submitted to the US Congress . |
| 9 | Fourth quarter results , however , were expected to reflect increased oil import prices and a drop in tourist numbers . |
| 10 | These conditions were expected to meet stiff resistance in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 11 | Press reports in late November 1989 had stated that more than 200 US members of Congress were expected to sponsor renewed moves to erect protectionist measures against Japan . |
| 12 | Economies of scale and the use of computers were expected to reduce administrative costs . |
| 13 | The members of the Battalion mess were so superior , it seemed , that they were expected to have unlimited funds at their disposal . |
| 14 | We were expected to have enough initiative to overcome the physical problems , maybe when the streets were under water or covered in snow , to get to our appointment on time . |
| 15 | And many will remember the dread feeling of uncertainty after Dunkirk when German Panzer divisions were expected to land any day . |
| 16 | Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time . |
| 17 | Under Mary , the Crown set up a sliding scale of military liability , so that poorer members of the community were obliged to supply a suit of armour , spear and bow and arrow , while those worth a thousand pounds or more were expected to provide sixteen horses , sixty suits of armour , fifty helmets , forty pikes , thirty long-bows , twenty bills , and twenty arquebuses . |
| 18 | Repairs were expected to cost 100,000,000 roubles and to take six months . |
| 19 | Bishops and abbots were expected to produce substantial contingents . |