Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] expected " in BNC.
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| 31 | Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | With the Appeal Board clearing Durie it had been expected the caution would be expunged . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Paul had done less well than had been expected of him at Balliol , not through his own fault . |
| 36 | Little problem had been expected from that workforce : it was young , unorganized and naive . |
| 37 | So much had been expected , yet it was a carbon copy of the wipe-out on the same track three years ago , and may signal a pruning down in future transatlantic visits for the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 38 | Leonid I. Ponomarev then applied the resonance theory to the case of deuterium — tritium ( ‘ dt ’ ) fusion and discovered that in a complicated molecule where two deuterons and one triton were encircled by two electrons and one muon the theory predicted that the fusion rate leapt enormously relative to what had been expected from the earlier simple theories . |
| 39 | A spokeswoman for Lacy Scott Auctioneers , off Risbygate Street , Bury St Edmunds , said the programme had been expected to fetch several hundred pounds . |
| 40 | The Notts County star had been expected to travel north to last night 's clash at Ewood Park , where money-bags Rovers lost 3-2 against Everton and missed their chance to bounce back to the top of the Premier Division . |
| 41 | Last year 's champion had been expected to stroll home against second-division opposition in the Prix du Prince D'Orange before another Breeders Cup bid . |
| 42 | The IBM announcement had been expected this month , and the delay is thought to have been occasioned by the need to respond to the Hitachi announcement . |
| 43 | Neither had been expected to raise objections . |
| 44 | The flaw in this disposition was that the advancing Germans were not only more numerous than the Allies had supposed but they were also moving in a more extended arc than had been expected . |
| 45 | They had been expected to supervise school meals , to distribute milk , to be responsible for children at lunch times . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | It had been expected that the AIX Unix database would be a derivation of DB/2 , the latest version of Database Manager for OS/2 , but IBM said on Friday that the two products would only ‘ merge over time ’ . |
| 48 | Informix exceeded its stated goal during times when it undershot its hiring figures or revenues were greater than had been expected , White told the conference . |
| 49 | Mr Yeltsin had been expected to win the referendum , but not resoundingly . |
| 50 | America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather . |
| 51 | The contract had been expected to account for up to 20% of Zenith 's business over its life . |
| 52 | It had been expected that the AIX Unix database would be a derivation of DB/2 , the latest version of Database Manager for OS/2 , but IBM said that the two products would only ‘ merge over time ’ . |
| 53 | Terms of the commercial alliance between the two are imprecise , although , as had been expected , Olivetti will use the Alpha RISC in future products . |
| 54 | Microsoft also now plans a new version of MS-DOS for early next year that will lack most of the features that had been expected in the MS-DOS 6.0 release , such as multi-tasking , and the company will now offer its object-oriented Cairo environment only for NT , and not for MS-DOS . |
| 55 | Aircraft embracing decades of RAF endeavour had been expected to take to the skies — from Spitfires and Hurricanes to Tornados and Jaguars . |
| 56 | Unfortunately , however , the government grossly overestimated the number of parishes in the country , and the tax brought in much less than had been expected . |
| 57 | Moreover , the peasantry were proving more acquiescent than had been expected , and the government was responding to the financial concern of the nobility with a variety of measures including plans to establish provincial banks . |
| 58 | Toby Bourne , a London eighteen year-old , was shocked when his C grade in A level French last summer put paid to his chances of reading French at university — he had been expected to do well . |
| 59 | They 've gone much further to the right than had been expected . |
| 60 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |