Example sentences of "be expect from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If nothing else , it gives an indication of the performance to be expected from a well-maintained battery .
2 In general , it seems sensible to suggest that any discretion will be exercised so as to improve regulators ' utility ( along the lines of what would be expected from a managerial utility maximization model like Williamson 's , 1963 ) .
3 The court would be unwilling or unable to determine what speed would be expected from a competent getaway driver .
4 ‘ Development ’ is also defined as meaning ‘ physical , intellectual , emotional , social or behavioural development ’ and , where the question whether harm suffered by a child is significant turns on the child 's health or development , his health or development shall be compared with that which could reasonably be expected from a similar child .
5 Like the army officers , the writer attempted to justify the recruitment practices of the Guards , and , as might be expected from a serious organ of right-wing opinion , more ingenuity was shown in the search for justificatory reasons than was by the lower-ranking quoted officers .
6 The obvious reluctance of many in the rural sector to seek work in the industrial sector , even on a temporary basis , points to an inclination to stay put far beyond what might be expected from a natural conservatism and apprehension of the unknown .
7 However , even that was partly to maintain cover since it was the sort of questioning to be expected from a shady jeweller .
8 The highest level of verbal information that can reasonably be expected from an automatic tagger is the transitivity of the verb .
9 This is serious stuff , as might be expected from an American editor who writes Bob Dylan reference books , but there are enough gems to counterbalance the struggle to forge a rock aesthetic .
10 Currently , extensive areas of Europe and eastern North America are experiencing average pH values of less than 4.5 and even less than 4.0 This represents precipitation acidity up to 30–40 times that which would be expected from an unpolluted atmosphere ( figure 4.3 ) .
11 The hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) told us in the briefest and skimpiest of ways — that is to be expected from the new model Labour party — of the Labour party 's pledge to return to a policy of fair rates .
12 As might be expected from the foregoing analysis , an investigation by the DTI Innovation Unit and the Technology Group of the CBI found that innovative ‘ Best Practice ’ companies go to great lengths to generate and capture ideas , from both internal and external sources , with careful attention to the balance of technology push and market pull and the rigorous implementation of screening processes and on-going reviews .
13 Analysis of the radio waves emitted by the Moon indicate that the thermal conductivity of the outer Moon increases rapidly with depth , just as would be expected from the increasing compaction of a fragmented medium .
14 Similarly , as observed by Bradford and Burdett ( 1989 ) , larger numbers of children in southern England go through the private education system than would be expected from the social class patterns there .
15 As would be expected from the previous discussion , the main decline in wage-earning employment came in the ( male-dominated ) industrial sector , while the non-industrial wage-earning category , which includes a substantial majority of women , showed a slight increase .
16 Notwithstanding the possible ground for distinguishing between the two cases , therefore , there remains a fundamental doubt as to just how much policy innovation can reasonably be expected from the British judiciary especially in such a politically sensitive area as defence policy .
17 The type of answer to be expected from the Painful Plodder would be as follows :
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