Example sentences of "was [adv] expected to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , although possessing a less extensive grant of power , the Commission was widely expected to be the dynamic element in further moves towards integration . |
| 3 | Gamsakhurdia 's term was to last only until direct presidential elections which the Supreme Soviet scheduled for May 26 , but he was widely expected to be returned to office . |
| 4 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 5 | Also replaced in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle was Petroleum Resources Minister Jibril Aminu , who was widely expected to be a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 5 . |
| 6 | An adult woman was normally expected to be a wife and mother . |
| 7 | Mr Upham , 45 , was at Labour 's campaign headquarters when police broke the news to him and was not expected to be at last night 's count . |
| 8 | In these schools , he implied , people would be falling over themselves to get jobs , and , in certain cases , they might be employed even if they had no formal teaching qualifications , though that was not expected to be the norm . |
| 9 | With few spares and no reserve aircraft , their service was not expected to be sustained . |
| 10 | We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October . |
| 11 | A full set of privatization laws was not expected to be ready before October 1990 . |
| 12 | Progress on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project , expected to become an important additional source of income and employment , was not expected to be affected by the political crisis in February 1990 ; the military government confirmed its intention of proceeding with the scheme under which hydroelectricity was to be generated in Lesotho and water was to be diverted from a catchment area in Lesotho to South Africa 's industrial heartland in the Transvaal [ see pp. 31304 ; 34789 ; 35815 ] . |
| 13 | A bill formally legalizing the new parties was not expected to be enacted before April . |
| 14 | The token repayment of $60 million per month on the $40,000 million commercial debt was not expected to be increased . |
| 15 | Lawyers for the two sides were continuing negotiations late into the night and a settlement was not expected to be announced until today . |
| 16 | The British challenge was always expected to be spearheaded by McRae 's Subaru Legacy , but Wilson confounded the pundits by snatching fifth place overall — four seconds behind his domestic rival . |
| 17 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 18 | The poet praises Beowulf by linking his killing of the monster Grendel with the feats of Sigmund , who was clearly expected to be familiar to an English audience . |
| 19 | There was also expected to be ( i ) an attempt to reduce inflation to about 3 per cent per month ( from an estimated 30-40 per cent ) ; ( ii ) a budget deficit target of below 5 per cent of gross national product ; and ( iii ) a gradual rise in energy prices to achieve parity with world prices by the end of 1993 . |
| 20 | The continued presence in Damascus of organisations which Washington says are engaged in terrorism was also expected to be discussed as an obstacle to better bilateral ties . |
| 21 | Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery . |
| 22 | Gallagher , who was injured in February and was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a year , follows striker Nigel Shaw as a beneficiary of the new operation , which involves the small insertion of laser equipment in the side of the knee to minimise surgery . |
| 23 | Whereas in March 1989 a public-sector debt repayment ( PSDR ) of nearly £14,000 million in 1989-90 had been forecast [ see p. 36529 ] , this was now expected to be only just over £7,000 million , and a broadly similar PSDR of £6,900 million was currently projected for 1990-91 . |
| 24 | The trade surplus was now expected to be less than US$10,000 million for the year compared to $16,000 million for 1989 ( US$1.00=129.826 cruzeiros as at Nov. 29 , 1990 ) . |
| 25 | Namibia predicted that it would have to spend R19,000,000 ( about US$6,850,000 ) on maize imports as the commercial maize harvest , originally forecast to be a record 50,000 tonnes , was now expected to be only 5,000-10,000 tonnes . |
| 26 | The US position , with President Bush facing elections in November , was apparently influenced by growing domestic opposition to its policy of forcibly repatriating Haitian refugees [ see pp. 38905 ; 39046 ] , and US pressure was now expected to be increased on Aristide to recognize Bazin as Prime Minister [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 27 | If I had left you , then I was n't expected to be … ’ |
| 28 | Age had given Norman Lamont a faintly oriental look ; the sound had been turned off , but it was plain from the speaker 's gestures that jam , or whatever was its Japanese equivalent , if it were not on today 's bill of fare , was certainly expected to be on the morrow 's . |