Example sentences of "would expect a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supporting the review , Tom Burlison , northern regional secretary of the GMB general union , said the public would expect a Labour government to use whatever was the most effective means of eliminating nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We would expect a Labour government to sweep away all those laws which conflict with the right to union recognition , which conflict with the social charter , and which conflict with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation , such as banning unions at GCHQ , Cheltenham , and banning collective pay bargaining for teachers . ’ |
| 3 | Complete fluency in the first and second languages is taken as prerequisite for training ( and one would expect a working interpreter to command at least four or five languages ) . |
| 4 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 5 | His terracotta-tiled house with salmon pink shutters is hardly the sort of place you would expect a wealthy actor to buy . |