Example sentences of "would expect [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 3 | The movement in the direction along the grain of the wood is negligible , as one would expect from the molecular structure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The speech by the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) was trenchant and honest , as one would expect from the hon. Gentleman . |
| 8 | 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 . |