Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] expect [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances . |
| 2 | We might then expect that final rather than initial position in the clause is where prominence can be achieved . |
| 3 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 4 | The representation is , of course , implicit and we would not expect any child to be able to state explicitly the phrase structure rules and transformations generating the sentences of his language . |
| 5 | But we can not expect any Psalm reflecting the years of oppression and revolt to be exactly comparable with the situation described from a later point of view in the Books of Maccabees ; and if we can not use the Books of Maccabees in this way any certain terms of comparison are lacking altogether . |
| 6 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |