Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And you , you 'd expect that to produce a severe superego ? |
| 32 | Coming from the lead guitarist in a band who 've only just released their second single , you 'd expect such remarks to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt . |
| 33 | This is the sort of trick you 'd expect some tinpot holy man to play , trying to impress the credulously . |
| 34 | And you 'd expect some broken headlights or something here on the road . |
| 35 | The programme never described him as such , though he certainly wields the authority you would expect that title would give him . |
| 36 | Even against the estate , the ride/handling/steering/braking package is by far the most convincing , as you would expect given SVE 's involvement . |
| 37 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
| 38 | You would expect this to shock her , and it does . |
| 39 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
| 40 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
| 41 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 42 | In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears . |
| 43 | You can expect much more than £1,000 if you make such a beachcombing discovery . |
| 44 | You can expect each of these products to have all the basic functions , so they 're pretty similar in those terms . |
| 45 | All the general advice given to improve your interview performance holds equally good when being interviewed by an agency and you can expect many of the same questions . |
| 46 | Butyl is the best liner to work with because it 's more flexible , and you can expect many trouble-free years from it provided you do n't assume it 's immune to damage . |
| 47 | The programmer will at least have tested the examples used in the documentation and so you can expect these , and procedures like them , to work ! |
| 48 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 49 | At the beginning of December , you can expect some extra developments regarding a domestic or professional matter , and this time you ca n't resist the winds of change . |
| 50 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
| 51 | He has sub-titled his talk ‘ A Layman 's View ’ , but you can expect some thought-provoking views . |
| 52 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
| 53 | Right , and we may , we may expect that to be the case , you know , clothes do n't have , textiles do n't have many substitutes . |
| 54 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 55 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 56 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 57 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 58 | Generally , one may expect that , for a combination of gravitational and electromagnetic waves , a curvature singularity in region IV will usually occur . |
| 59 | There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) . |
| 60 | In a normal year ( that is , not a boom year or a slump year ) , we should expect aggregate transitory income to be zero , so that aggregate measured and permanent incomes would be equal . |