Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been expect " in BNC.
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| 31 | Beliefs which had become established almost as folk-law , such as the universally harmful effects of too much salt , had less support than might have been expected . |
| 32 | The effects on public expenditure have not been as drastic as might have been expected . |
| 33 | The remaining populace , disillusioned with their rulers and protectors , accordingly greeted the French emperor and his men with less hostility than might have been expected . |
| 34 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 35 | Merckx was known as ‘ the cannibal ’ , so often did he scoop up the prizes , even in minor events when he might have been expected to allow minor or local riders to have their day . |
| 36 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 37 | It was obvious to them that Danzig , up to the advent of the Nazis , had been far freer from racial strife and entrenched national rivalry than might have been expected in such a complex and explosive economic and political environment . |
| 38 | Though those parents who were able to escape to England might have been expected to accept immediate responsibility for their offspring , this was often not practicable . |
| 39 | However , they also escaped the severe censure that might have been expected from the high-minded moralists who strutted busily through the Victorian England of his day . |
| 40 | The casualty rate so far was no more than might have been expected from the hazardous nature of the operation , and although he could not , in all honesty , say he was in command of the whole ship , he at least held the strategic upper hand . |
| 41 | than might have been expected . |
| 42 | The parameters used to select patients for the trial , however , could have indicated several remedies other than Rhus toxicodendron , and the chances of any particular patient responding to the Rhus toxicodendron were little better than might have been expected by chance alone . |
| 43 | When John Wesley visited the county in 1773 he found support at Rye , as might have been expected , but little elsewhere : the locals were too fond of the smuggling and intemperance he preached so strongly against . |
| 44 | But Trafalgar caved in , and its chief executive is leaving the company earlier than might have been expected . |
| 45 | These figures , as might have been expected , show a dramatic increase in the use of mail order . |
| 46 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 47 | Nevertheless his reaction now was less than might have been expected , for he was an impressionable man where women were concerned . |
| 48 | Harriet , as might have been expected , behaved admirably . |
| 49 | She was , in fact , somewhat ashamed that Edna was witness to so many things which , coming from a large , poor but loving family , must surely be incomprehensible to the girl : Liza 's aversion to picking up her child , never attempting to play with Celia , her obvious relief when Edna performed such tasks which any normal mother might have been expected to undertake willingly . |
| 50 | There is a minor mystery about this mode , for Tolkien might have been expected not to like it . |
| 51 | We controlled the game better than might have been expected but this game is different and , however much you plan things , a goal can change everything . |
| 52 | The Army in their Heads of Proposals offered the King terms which he might have been expected to find much more acceptable . |
| 53 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 54 | Hence , ‘ the relationship between the size of the employing unit and the number of young people recruited each year was not as close as might have been expected ’ ( ibid. , p. 47 ) . |
| 55 | It might have been expected that such a paper from Nägeli , who was one of the most distinguished botanists in Europe at that time , would have had immense impact on the early development of plant ecology . |
| 56 | The British came to Cannes with some pomp and ceremony and , for a disintegrating industry , made a bigger splash than might have been expected . |
| 57 | Mergers are usually disturbing to employees and managers alike , and a merger of nearly 600 undertakings might have been expected to create more pain than most . |
| 58 | An association between the ACE/ID polymorphism and blood pressure might have been expected from its anticipated effect on vascular tone and architecture . |
| 59 | Considering the extensive area the complex covered and the large and varied number of the inmates , considerably more guards or prison officers might have been expected , with a much more rigid control over the movements and integration of the prisoners . |
| 60 | The planters might have been expected to see that slavery in the West Indies was wastefully debilitating , for the slaves died so fast that new ones had continuously to be brought in . |