"were expected to think" is a grammatically correct part of a sentence that can be used in written English.
For example: The students were expected to think critically about the new ideas presented in the lecture.
Those approached in July, by contrast, received a deadline into the next year, and were expected to think of their deadline as unlike-the-present.
For too long, women were expected to think like men and act like men if they wanted to succeed.
Consequently, we were expected to think carefully about the effect of what we did and said.
Clarke had already established that deception operations should have a clear idea of what the enemy was supposed to do (rather than what they were expected to think).
However, gay men soon found that they were in the minority in these sex addiction settings, and were expected to think and act like their heterosexual counterparts -- for instance having only monogamous relationships and taking time before having sex.
Now, this is the sort of thing Ratmansky might be expected to think.
I did something creative with students who have never been expected to think outside the box before.
What could a jury be expected to think upon hearing a lady who had slain her husband assert that when the coward struck her she saw mauve, or that everything went beige?
According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, developed in the 1930's, the mental categories by which people perceive the world are determined by their language, so that people who speak different languages can be expected to think differently.
Of course it's possible to troll at a much less violent level, simply by stalking through internet communities where people might be expected to think in a particular way, and saying things that will wind them up.
Enterprise is at the heart of the initiative says Karen Brooks, SETsquared projects director: "Even if graduates get one of the few corporate jobs still around, they will be expected to think and act more innovatively," she says.
