Example sentences of "had [been] widely predict " in BNC.
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| 1 | As had been widely predicted by criminologists and other commentators , the detention centres with the new harsher regimes were no more successful than detention centres with unmodified regimes in terms of the reconvic-tion rates of their ex-inmates ( Home Office , 1994b ) . |
| 2 | Pereira 's defeat had been widely predicted following the rout of his nominally Marxist African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ) in the first multiparty legislative elections , on Jan. 13 , when Monteiro 's Movement for Democracy ( MPD ) won 56 of the 79 seats in the National People 's Assembly [ see p. 37948 ] . |
| 3 | Hamdi Ali Abdel-Wahab al-Banbi , hitherto chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation ( EGPC ) , took over as Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister from the long-serving Abdul Hadi Mohammed Qandil , whose dismissal had been widely predicted following criticism from foreign companies that he paid too little attention to exploration and production . |
| 4 | The result had been widely predicted by opinion polls which showed that the Labour Party ( in government since 1984 ) had lost the confidence of the electorate . |
| 5 | This development had been widely predicted since the appointment of Keizo Obuchi as leader of the Takeshita faction in succession to Shin Kanemara , who had been forced to resign from the Diet in October as a result of the Sagawa Kyubin scandal [ see pp. 39140-41 ] . |