Example sentences of "been expected [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1988 interim results indicated that around 10 per cent fewer accidents occurred than would have been expected without the schemes . |
| 2 | Among other findings , this produced five cases of young leukaemia within eight miles of the plant over the period 1979–84 , where less than one would have been expected on the basis of national rates . |
| 3 | This prediction , too , was supported but the pattern of results shown by right handers ( non-inverters ) was closer to that of left inverters than to that shown by left non-inverters , which would not have been expected on Levy and Reid 's hypothesis . |
| 4 | Mann 's release had been expected on Sept. 18 when the Iranian news agency IRNA office in Beirut had predicted that he would be free " within hours " . |
| 5 | In some localities trouble had undoubtedly been expected at the time of the Bank Holiday , and it was reported in Lambeth police court that plainclothes men had been specially stationed for the purpose of dealing with cases of street ruffianism' . |
| 6 | Disagreements had been expected at the party convention after Koirala 's dismissal of six key ministers on Dec. 30 , 1991 . |
| 7 | In this connection , he claims that an increase in the number of myelomas ( tumour of the bone marrow ) in the area during the 1970s would not have been expected as a result of iodine-131 contamination , but could have arisen from ingestion of polonium-210 , an alpha emitter . |
| 8 | And we can not help but contrast the generous appreciation of Dryden by Eliot , who might have been expected to be temperamentally less in tune with him . |
| 9 | He had been expected to be out of the game for at least two months after suffering concussion and a broken eye socket from a punch , but has made a remarkable recovery . |
| 10 | According to Committee secretary Nigel Peace , the finalised version of the report , which had been expected to be issued in October , will not now appear until the end of November at the earliest : this makes the original proposed deadline of 31 December 1992 for compliance with the code too tight for companies to meet . |
| 11 | Yet the above comparison has never worked , nor could it have been expected to . |
| 12 | Other unions which had either supported the earlier feasibility study , or might otherwise have been expected to be sympathetic , came up with only feeble amounts . |
| 13 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 14 | Yet education has never guaranteed employment , and whether it has or has not been expected to , we must also consider the other purposes it may serve . |
| 15 | Previously it had only been expected to be able to offer a 16-way system in its first go-round . |
| 16 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
| 17 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 18 | The UK had been expected to be the second largest customer for the NFR90 , after the USA . |
| 19 | Although he had not formally announced his candidature Olympio , son of President Sylvanus Olympio who was himself assassinated in 1963 , had been expected to be a very popular presidential candidate . |
| 20 | The majority in favour of allowing sole practice on the traditional model to continue without restriction might have been expected to be larger given the preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole . |
| 21 | The 7% margin against the Council 's plans for monitoring visits to sole practitioners might have been expected to be larger in view of the fact that the response as a whole was weighted so heavily in favour of sole practitioners . |
| 22 | 2.7 If at any time any Works are carried out otherwise than in accordance with the Building Documents and this fact might [ reasonably ] have been expected to be apparent on visual inspection to the Surveyors on the first occasion following the carrying out of the relevant Works on which they actually inspected the same pursuant to clause 2.5 ( " Relevant Inspection " ) then unless within [ 5 ] working days after the date of the Relevant Inspection ( time being of the essence ) the Surveyors have served on the Architect a Defects Notice in respect of such non-compliance the relevant Works shall be treated for all purposes of this agreement as having been carried out in accordance with the Building Documents This provision should be deleted . |
| 23 | The Building Societies Act was a response to structural changes in the financial services market , whereas the Banking Act and the Financial Services Act were responses to cases of fraud and bad practice , and as such are ‘ defensive ’ forms of regulation that might have been expected to be overdetailed and expensive to implement ( Goodhart 1988 ) . |
| 24 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 25 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 26 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 27 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 28 | The underlying problem was , perhaps , that too much had been expected of the Queen . |
| 29 | He played Bobby Dupea with explosive sensitivity , as a promising musician who rejects a career to become an oil-rigger ; a rebel who , like Nicholson himself , had the chance of taking a particular course in life which would have provided him with comfort and stability , but chose a different route to that which might have been expected of him . |
| 30 | Maud 's living room was not what might have been expected of a Victorian scholar . |