Example sentences of "[been] widely expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGLAND may not , as had been widely expected , play all their opening World Cup finals games in Sardinia next year . |
| 2 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 3 | An unchanged cabinet had been widely expected , but only as a temporary measure because of the uncertainty caused by the courts . |
| 4 | Mr Major 's appointment of two women to the Cabinet will certainly add a touch of glamour to his team , and had been widely expected . |
| 5 | NeXT has been widely expected to endorse Motorola 's 88000 RISC CPU as a matter of routine . |
| 6 | A Chinese victory had been widely expected , and many Westerners were shocked by the apparent totality of Japan 's triumph . |
| 7 | It had been widely expected that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali , whose distaste for capital punishment for politically motivated crimes had been well publicized , would commute the death sentences . |
| 8 | Mauroy 's departure had been widely expected since the party 's extraordinary congress in December [ see below ] , which had failed to resolve personal rivalries . |
| 9 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 10 | Collor 's defence lawyers also confirmed that they would not call Farias ( who had been widely expected to turn on Collor , since Collor 's defence evidence was expected to centre around directing all the blame at him ) . |
| 11 | Today 's announcement had been widely expected . |
| 12 | Winner of the South African Grand Prix on Sunday , Prost had been widely expected to be banned for one or more races or heavily fined . |