'were easily anticipated' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a situation that was predicted or expected to happen because of certain factors. For example: The negative consequences of the policy change were easily anticipated.
Although there has been rising anger over the last three days at Central Command's efforts at news management, the questions for the most part were easily anticipated and easily batted away.
The Congress has proven itself so dysfunctional that outcomes were easily anticipated: public condemnation, political polarization, and the foreknowledge that there would be little to no consequence or accountability... and of course no matter what is said, a finger would be pointed to establish fault with the Republicans.
Some conflicts are easily anticipated.
The speech's emphasis on women's issues was easily anticipated.
However, it can be easily anticipated that the fabrication of this confined structure is not possible using the conventional sputtering process for the GST film deposition due to its inherent poor step coverage.
Because of the ever-increasing cost of energy, it can be easily anticipated that the athermal membrane processes will be the technology of the future in the food and allied industries.
Given these characteristics, it is easily anticipated that visual scanning patterns would be restricted.
This implies that if the E-box is indeed the pathway of SNAI1 influence, then its effect on PAI-1 transcription cannot be easily anticipated.
By contrast, the texture features in the analysis presented here were selected on the basis of their ability to differentiate between the mammograms of breast cancer patients and healthy controls, resulting in a mathematical model that may not be easily anticipated by the human brain or its visual functions.
Even the typical vertical profile of (sigma ) is not easily anticipated because of opposing tendencies in the dependencies of conductivity and density on T, S.
Given that metaparticle structures correspond to highly symmetric polyhedra and that the size of effective patches is prescribed by the monomer diameter, one might expect the variety of patterns that can be assembled from the C3, C4, and C6 clusters of Figure 1 a to be meager and easily anticipated.
