Example sentences of "expected [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Akashi , during a visit to Japan on March 11 , said that he expected the Japanese government to contribute a third of UNTAC 's estimated total cost of US$1,900 million . |
| 2 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 3 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 4 | The government expected the Soviet Union to remain Czechoslovakia 's most important trading partner . |
| 5 | On July 21 the Finance Minister , Nasir Abdel allah al Rawdan indicated that the government did not intend to borrow the entire sum authorized by the decree ; he expected the actual amount borrowed to be less than $24,000 million . |
| 6 | West European governments never expected the Final Act to work an instant revolution in international affairs and it was always understood that many questions lay beyond its scope . |
| 7 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 8 | So entranced was he by all this technology that he half expected the same voice to thank him . |
| 9 | Three out of four independent economic forecasting bodies expected the Scottish economy to perform better than the UK economy both last year and this year . |
| 10 | Soviet spokesmen expected the Third World states to form a strong constituency of support for Brezhnev 's plan and they chose their arguments accordingly . |
| 11 | Mr Willasey expected the latest document to last through most of the 1990s , but it would be reviewed subject to any changes in fashion trends . |
| 12 | Whether anyone in Berlin seriously expected the French government to believe this is certainly open to question in view of the preceding events . |
| 13 | Prior to the general election , when many experts expected a Labour victory followed by a rise in base rates , there were several enticing bonds to go for . |
| 14 | " The tsar and his generals expected an easy campaign marked by heart-warming victories " , which was more or less what they got . |