Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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1 | It gets embarrassing at times when there are guests in the house , even if they are family and ought to know what to expect . |
2 | Horses are creatures of habit , and steeplechasers should know what to expect . |
3 | The negative consequences of inappropriate behaviour should be predictable to the child : he/she should know what to expect . |
4 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I must say I expected to see my sister accuse Orlick of attacking her , but instead she seemed very pleased to see him . |
8 | Do n't let me catch anybody else rushing about the corridor , or they 'll know what to expect . |
9 | It 'll keep I expect . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Contrary to what folk models of the RUC might lead one to expect , most policemen and women at Easton have not even drawn their gun , let alone fired it . |
12 | When the pressures of the market and of urban local democracy ( which had earlier restricted rural development ) were replaced by ministerial investment control and rural pressure group activity at the national level , the consequences for efficiency and equality were not always those which the rival contemporary slogans of left and right might lead one to expect from them . |
13 | The finding of Butler and Glass ( 1974 ) that the magnitude of the CNV was greater over the left hemisphere prior to a verbal task and greater over the right hemisphere prior to a facial discrimination task might lead one to expect that the direction of CNV asymmetry can be predicted on the basis of selective hemispheric involvement in particular tasks . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | You 'd know what to expect next time — that does n't do it for him , you know what I mean ? ’ |
19 | and across the , er two yards the , a man and a woman were sit there watching me , hoping I 'd fall I expect . |
20 | It would have helped to have had something to read in the quiet of my own home , so I could know what to expect in the future . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | In the two West Midlands boroughs there was a clear tendency for the Conservatives to do better and Labour worse than a similar examination of a wide range of ward social characteristics would lead one to expect . |
23 | The views of Luria , and the findings of more recent work by Ferreiro on South American children , are not well supported by the outcomes of Jones 's Edinburgh study , where the developmental picture that emerges is less neat and tidy than Ferreiro 's work would lead one to expect . |
24 | As this argument would lead one to expect , children showed considerable cognitive and linguistic abilities in handling intentional mode explanations , despite their complexity . |
25 | Primal Scream Not a name which would lead you to expect self-absorbed acoustic doodlings . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | There is a strong tradition in the sociological literature which would lead us to expect such a change of direction . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |