Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] expect to find [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last place you 'd expect to find pollution , but the evidence is here in these photographs . |
| 2 | Of course you 'd expect to find fly ash at any period since people began burning coal in quantity . |
| 3 | The kind of conventions which you can expect to find operating are : |
| 4 | Yet it is in the inner ear that the returning ultrasonic echoes are received , and where one might expect to find problems . |
| 5 | We might expect to find regularities in the roles team members play in relation to the visionary , but this has yet to be established . |
| 6 | We might expect to find difficulty in relating , for example , the average length of prison sentences to the incidence of the crimes for which they are imposed ; but to be at a loss to trace any clear connection between the prospects of being executed for murder and the prevalence of the crime of murder is startling and impressive . |
| 7 | If it is the simple physical characteristics of a stimulus that play the key role in generalizations about behaviour , then we might expect to find patients who have lost the ability to lip-read and lost the ability to judge expression , but not patients who have lost only one of these two abilities while retaining the other . |
| 8 | A second obvious problem is the striking blank where normally we would expect to find discussion of content . |
| 9 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 10 | On the principles relating to constructive knowledge in the ticket cases , the documents upon which standard terms and conditions are usually printed ( quotations , order forms and acknowledgments ) are clearly the sort of document where one would expect to find terms and conditions , and which a reasonable man would read carefully . |
| 11 | Generally , then , one would expect to find reciprocation in populations of highly social animals living in small intensely interactive groups . |
| 12 | When astronauts voyage to distant planets and look for life , they can expect to find creatures too strange and unearthly for us to imagine . |