Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | This coincided , however , with an increasing prevalence of the conditions and institutions which should lead us to expect the reporting and recording of offences to grow in proportion to the actual occurrence of victimization . |
| 2 | The decades since 1950 , the 40 most revolutionary years in the history of human society , should lead us to expect a massive disintegration of old values , a collapse of old certainties . |
| 3 | I must say I expected to see my sister accuse Orlick of attacking her , but instead she seemed very pleased to see him . |
| 4 | It 'll keep I expect . |
| 5 | well mind you , the only thing is he said did she get a phone call yesterday and she never so he might have he expected her to have had one . |
| 6 | All of which helps to explain why Mr Kohl 's chances of winning re-election do not look as bad as a shrinking economy , growing budget deficit , and foreign-policy gridlock might lead you to expect . |
| 7 | As the English word ‘ science ’ might lead us to expect , scientia falls into various bodies of knowledge , or sciences , distinguished by their different subject-matters . |
| 8 | Yet there is one passage in chapters 1–3 which might seem to dispel all fear , and might lead us to expect Israel to win a resounding victory . |
| 9 | Indeed , the very concrete physicality of objects might lead us to expect quite the opposite conclusion , which is that it is language which organizes the deep unconscious , while objects as visible images are a relatively superficial phenomenon . |
| 10 | and across the , er two yards the , a man and a woman were sit there watching me , hoping I 'd fall I expect . |
| 11 | Instead of finding there a source of order which their theories would lead them to expect , they are shocked and insulted to find yet another example of lack of strength . |
| 12 | Primal Scream Not a name which would lead you to expect self-absorbed acoustic doodlings . |
| 13 | Economic theory would lead you to expect a net gain even in the EC — making it possible to compensate Western Europe 's producers for their losses and still show a gain for consumers and taxpayers . |
| 14 | There is a strong tradition in the sociological literature which would lead us to expect such a change of direction . |
| 15 | In the late nineteenth century the trend to lower levels of recorded crime coincided with developments which , other things being equal , would lead us to expect rising levels of recording . |
| 16 | Anselm 's general habits of thought , which were essentially unitary , would lead us to expect him to be opposed , or at least indifferent , to local privileges . |
| 17 | The experience of other advanced economies would lead us to expect the increasing dominance of larger manufacturing firms who can benefit more from economies of scale as the level of output and capital investment increases . |
| 18 | As human civilization grows and develops , it does not lead to an increase in human happiness , as utilitarianism would lead us to expect . |
| 19 | There are the jellyfish that Ediacara would lead us to expect . |
| 20 | Precisely what this tandem relationship and the reiterated link with the historical Jesus would lead us to expect . |
| 21 | That 's what our peer would lead us to expect . |