Example sentences of "would expect the [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Leader of the House confirm that although few people in Britain would expect the Prime Minister to match President Yeltsin bottle for bottle , they will find it odd that the Government insist on increasing or doubling Britain 's nuclear fire power when both the Russians and the Americans see good reasons for cutting theirs ? |
| 2 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 3 | Instead , the times when one would expect the ultradian rhythm to produce a burst of activity or feeding drop out . |
| 4 | But he adds : ‘ We would expect the French economy to remain relatively weak for at least the next year because its main trading partner , Germany , is itself entering what is likely to be quite a painful economic slowdown , brought about by the very high interest rates . ’ |
| 5 | One would expect the older Wordsworth to trot out the arguments of the Established Church at this point : instead he says he does |