Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [modal v] expect [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for Littlewoods says : ‘ They were perfectly happy modelling the clothes , but that 's what you would expect from these highly professional girls — they are adaptable . ’ |
| 2 | The JD Tele wins out on knobs , since the Signature 's volume control is horribly graunchy — again , not what you 'd expect for this kind of money . |
| 3 | That 's what you 'd expect from some of the bitter old farts who used to fill the magazine with self-indulgent whimsy about lawnmowers and the ex-colonial buffers who let their subscriptions lapse when India was granted independence . |
| 4 | How far down the social scale the possession of seals extended is not known , but the carrying of personal identification tags is exactly what we would expect of such a minutely organized society . |
| 5 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 6 | Then we 'd be able to see what our harvest has brought from London , what we can expect from this place , and from the King . ’ |