Example sentences of "[pron] might expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 2 | You might expect air conditioning , leather seats and at least a stereo when you pay over £50,000 for a car , but not if it 's a Mercedes you 're buying . |
| 3 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 4 | You might expect Ashley Newton to agree with Clarke . |
| 5 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 6 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
| 7 | Explain why you might expect security betas to change over time . |
| 8 | It was a rough grey face , full of rifts and clefts and fissures , out of which , someone said , you might expect lichens to grow . |
| 9 | You might expect leopards to keep away from forest tracks frequented by humans but they often use them for preference . |
| 10 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 11 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 12 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 13 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
| 14 | This seems unlikely , however , because one might expect females to be just as much in need of protection as males . |
| 15 | One might expect politicians to talk fast and academics endorsing the view that the European Community is something so new and sui generis that the age old problems of the rivalry between peoples and states can be overcome through it . |
| 16 | In view of the lengthy discussions on the nature of the deaf community , one might expect language attitude effects in learning sign language . |
| 17 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 18 | The estimate for the two albums is £150,000–200,000 , and one might expect interest to be shown by an Italian State collection such as the Museo degli Argenti in Florence . |
| 19 | Part of the experiment was to hold a couple of quizzes at the time of year when we might expect problems with speakers and audience having to travel in bad weather . |
| 20 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 21 | We might expect speaker B to be a little confused about how these elements relate to the preceding conversation . |
| 22 | We might expect students of dance or music to engage in practical activities , but their theoretical studies are , by and large , directly related to those activities . |
| 23 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 24 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |
| 25 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |
| 26 | He walked towards it , habit making him look about him , as if , even here , he might expect attack . |
| 27 | If he backed his superior , Marshal Yazov , and the putschists , he might expect promotion ; but he would still be far from the top . |