Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he should have been expecting her question . |
| 2 | You must have been expecting trouble . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You must have been expecting me . ’ |
| 4 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Stewart invited him in so he must have been expecting him ’ said Mrs Donnelly . |
| 6 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 7 | And we can not help but contrast the generous appreciation of Dryden by Eliot , who might have been expected to be temperamentally less in tune with him . |
| 8 | At which the manifestations of blacks and Asians from the floor were as downright as might have been expected . |
| 9 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 10 | The inflation figures , and even pay settlements , have been less awful than might have been expected . |
| 11 | Otherwise , the Commonwealth relationship remained more tranquil under Mrs Thatcher than might have been expected . |
| 12 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |
| 13 | The seeming gains made by the Liberals in the negotiations before the Cabinet agreed to an election — that there should be no joint manifesto , and no pledge to introduce tariffs , merely an impartial inquiry — turned out ( as might have been expected ) to be worthless . |
| 14 | When he returned to the UK he was eventually appointed to the board , but not , as might have been expected , in charge of the refinery side of the business . |
| 15 | A more concerted action by governments to address this quiet massacre might have been expected , but part of the problem is the lack of a single international forum to deal with the management of small cetaceans . |
| 16 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 17 | The collapse of the Keating empire , and the destruction of much of Kuwait city by the occupying Iraqis , might have been expected to dim Kuwaiti interest in hotel development in Phoenix . |
| 18 | This might have been expected to mitigate fear of death ; unfortunately , with the general decay of faith towards the end of the century , it was not only terror of hell that was declining , but also hope of immortality . |
| 19 | In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued . |
| 20 | The Great and Good have proved more resilient than might have been expected . |
| 21 | I feared in Rome I detected a great change for the worse , but she has stood the journey well , better than might have been expected , and now , if all remains serene , we may see her build up again . ’ |
| 22 | Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear . |
| 23 | The movement 's historian has described it as ‘ a landmark in Free Church history ’ although he admitted ‘ it did not take hold on the life of the Free Churches in the way that might have been expected ’ . |
| 24 | Mr Yeltsin , who in normal circumstances might have been expected to restrain the Russian nationalists , is fighting for political survival against a Congress of People 's Deputies highly critical of his economic reforms . |
| 25 | More units might have been expected to have explored the extra income potential of specialised products . |
| 26 | If complete public openness is the policy , it might have been expected that the public would have free access to governors ' meetings so that they could hear the arguments for policy and resource allocations within the school . |
| 27 | He played Bobby Dupea with explosive sensitivity , as a promising musician who rejects a career to become an oil-rigger ; a rebel who , like Nicholson himself , had the chance of taking a particular course in life which would have provided him with comfort and stability , but chose a different route to that which might have been expected of him . |
| 28 | Maud 's living room was not what might have been expected of a Victorian scholar . |
| 29 | True , she went to bed late , and was often at her desk until four a.m. , and so might have been expected to rise well after midday , and luxuriate over breakfast before beginning her day 's work at one in the afternoon . |
| 30 | The processes which keep alive a microbe , a spinach plant , and a human turned out to have more in common than might have been expected . |