Example sentences of "might [verb] been expect [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Judging by the problems caused by regional specialization when an area 's specialism went into decline , this shift might have been expected to lessen the degree of uneven development .
2 Even the independent bookmakers , who might have been expected to welcome the opportunity to extend their hours , were largely against the reform .
3 Within the small towns , apparently independent bath-houses are more common than might have been expected given the general level of amenity provision ( fig. 5 D–H ) .
4 In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued .
5 Mr Yeltsin , who in normal circumstances might have been expected to restrain the Russian nationalists , is fighting for political survival against a Congress of People 's Deputies highly critical of his economic reforms .
6 Furthermore , the reduction in IGFBP-1 values after steroid treatment might have been expected to increase the availability of IGF-I for growth .
7 McKeown ( 1976 ) and Hollingsworth ( 1982 ) insist that mortality response was the key to understanding the beginning of the demographic transition , particularly its continued decline despite the rapid population growth and urbanization of the nineteenth century , which might have been expected to raise the death rate .
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