Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody should expect this sleeping dog to lie . |
| 2 | The attitude that ‘ you must expect this at your age ’ is something that is heard all too often . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You would expect this to shock her , and it does . |
| 5 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
| 6 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 7 | As we said in section 2.3 , we should expect this to reduce the cost and increase the volume of lending and borrowing with possible consequences for both the balance between consumption and saving and the level of aggregate demand . |
| 8 | One might expect this because convergent evolution would lead to similar mechanisms to carry out similar functions . |
| 9 | One might expect this to include advisory visits , aid with the development of study skills and so on , and to some extent this does happen . |
| 10 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 11 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 12 | Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day . |
| 13 | One would expect this to occur most readily when the anode and cathode spacing was small . |
| 14 | Make a special note of anything that is unexpected such as a sore throat that is better for swallowing solid food — normally one would expect this to make it worse . |
| 15 | One would expect this to occur in natural acquisition situations , such that adults ' and children 's interaction with others can be compared . |
| 16 | If Protestantism was more Conducive than Catholicism to the expansion of science , one would expect this to manifest itself in a greater receptivity toward new and controversial ideas . |
| 17 | One would expect this large amount of positive feed-back to lead to instability : as soon as the input is strong enough to excite one or two neurons , one would expect these to feed back on to others and initiate an explosive chain reaction . |
| 18 | So we can expect this summer , in your view we can expect to see as many tourists from overseas as we normally do . |
| 19 | Nicholson wondered , if the snow came , what he could expect this time . |