Example sentences of "was expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan ( see Guitart 1981 ; RENFE 1980m : 53–67 ) was expected to create 50,000 permanent new jobs and aimed to put RENFE on a par with the best European railways within a dozen years . |
| 2 | The plan allowed for IR4,500,000 million in agricultural investment , and was expected to create 2,000,000 new jobs . |
| 3 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 4 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
| 5 | In contrast to the homespun approach of Chiles , Martinez was believed to have amassed some $7,000,000 to spend on his November campaign , and was expected to use negative tactics . |
| 6 | Mr Whyte plans to visit the research base at Laspi Bay , in the Crimea 20 miles east of Sebastopol , where Brightness was expected to arrive last night , to ask the Russians to drop their plan . |
| 7 | The dot location task , which involves predominantly the right hemisphere , was expected to remain unaffected . |
| 8 | Unemployment in the OECD countries was expected to remain stable at an average of 6.5 per cent in 1990 despite a slowdown in growth . |
| 9 | As a consequence of the belief in the unbalanced ratio , demographers advocated the long-term necessity of keeping older people in the work-force , since the birth-rate was expected to remain low despite a wartime upturn . |
| 10 | In 1982 he had helped to found the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front ( UDF ) [ see also p. 33895 ] , and he was expected to remain active in politics . |
| 11 | The only negative aspect highlighted by the report was an increased deficit in the current account of the balance of payments ; however the overall balance of payments was expected to remain positive because of large capital inflows . |
| 12 | Later , it was to take on consultative functions ; in practice , most observers expected it to act as a clearing house for mutual trade between its members , which was expected to remain important for some years , and to co-ordinate east European policy toward the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 13 | The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough . |
| 14 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 15 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 16 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 17 | He was expected to employ six able well-experienced and sufficient miners for nine months in each year , and as soon as " Tenn Tunns " be raised , to employ ten able well-experienced workmen to dress the ore . |
| 18 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia remained the only Arab state without diplomatic relations with China , but China had been a weapons supplier to Saudi Arabia since 1985 ; in addition the move was expected to open new links between Saudi Arabia and the Moslem minority in China . |
| 20 | The organization for the event fell to Sybille , who was expected to invite some of her friends and family to lend an authentic French air to the proceedings . |
| 21 | Spanish and Portuguese membership came only after long talks , and was expected to put greater pressures on the Social and Regional Funds , as well as increasing the costs of the CAP . |
| 22 | The first tranche of these sanctions , affecting imports worth US$300,000,000 , was due to take effect on Dec. 5 and was expected to affect French wine and food products , since the USA held France responsible for the deadlock . |
| 23 | Ursula was expected to do all the housework , look after the baby of the family and was paid 2/6d a week . |
| 24 | As far as the Herbert interest was concerned , therefore , Gloucester was put at the head of an existing connection which he was expected to do little to modify . |
| 25 | As far as the Herbert interest was concerned , therefore , Gloucester was put at the head of an existing connection which he was expected to do little to modify . |
| 26 | The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain . |
| 27 | Jose Urbina Lara , leader of the group , who stormed the embassy on 8 March , stayed behind at the airport but was expected to leave later for the Dominican Republic , where he has been granted asylum . |
| 28 | He had been elected as an opposition Jatiya Party member of the Jatiya Sangsad ( parliament ) in February [ see pp. 38006-07 ] , but was expected to forfeit this office if he lost his appeal . |
| 29 | Their promised availability and utilisation was such that one new vehicle was expected to replace two old ones , and thus considerable cost savings were ensured . |
| 30 | The overall budget deficit was expected to represent 5.1 per cent of GDP , to be financed from domestic borrowings . |