Example sentences of "would expect [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Contributors invested in them as they would in any commercial building company and their philanthropy lay in accepting a return which , at 5 per cent , was lower than they would expect on the free market .
2 It is important to note that the consonants that have undergone assimilation have not disappeared ; in the above examples , the duration of the consonants remains more or less what one would expect for a two-consonant cluster .
3 The theory has to cope with situations in which the dynamical properties of particles , such as electrons , protons and neutrons , and even atoms , are very different from what we would expect of a scaled-down billiard ball following its usual ‘ classical ’ behaviour .
4 Our military personnel structure combines the high standards and severe sanctions against personal failure you would expect with a more-than-generous salary .
5 The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation .
6 Here the signs indicate that the cycle track ends and that cars are forbidden from entering , while the surface alterations and provision of bike parking would be what one would expect from a well-planned shopping centre .
7 Yet the quality , the range of frequencies we can detect , is only a fifth of that which we would expect from a reasonable Hi-Fi system .
8 As an all-round shoe , the System XC 6000 has many of the technical components you would expect from a top-of-the-range cushioning shoe and performed adequately .
9 Johnson referred , characteristically , to ‘ the sort of bounce you would expect from a Scotch egg landing in a bowl of porridge ’ .
10 The movement in the direction along the grain of the wood is negligible , as one would expect from the molecular structure .
11 And , to make it all seem almost too good to be true the total number of possible W particles seen by both UA1 and UA2 is just what one would expect from the total number of proton-antiproton collisions that the two experiments have observed .
12 This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory .
13 Sri Lanka , like India , was subject to periodic increases in the price of grain , but the link between crime and economic hardship was not as strong as one would expect from the Indian evidence .
14 The speech by the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) was trenchant and honest , as one would expect from the hon. Gentleman .
15 From everything I have said , I am sure that my Hon. Friends will agree that it is a model pension scheme , which is what one would expect from the public sector .
16 I think that his decision was an honourable one and one which we would expect from an honourable man .
17 One can speculate that this boy might some day join one of the rebellious students who fight the establishment in an astonishingly infantile way , expecting at the same time not to be punished and to be granted full amnesty for their transgressions , just as a small child would expect from an indulgent parent .
18 This is not something one would expect in a normal shop .
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