Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even against the estate , the ride/handling/steering/braking package is by far the most convincing , as you would expect given SVE 's involvement . |
| 32 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
| 33 | You would expect this to shock her , and it does . |
| 34 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
| 35 | In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears . |
| 36 | You can expect much more than £1,000 if you make such a beachcombing discovery . |
| 37 | You can expect each of these products to have all the basic functions , so they 're pretty similar in those terms . |
| 38 | All the general advice given to improve your interview performance holds equally good when being interviewed by an agency and you can expect many of the same questions . |
| 39 | Butyl is the best liner to work with because it 's more flexible , and you can expect many trouble-free years from it provided you do n't assume it 's immune to damage . |
| 40 | The programmer will at least have tested the examples used in the documentation and so you can expect these , and procedures like them , to work ! |
| 41 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 42 | At the beginning of December , you can expect some extra developments regarding a domestic or professional matter , and this time you ca n't resist the winds of change . |
| 43 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
| 44 | He has sub-titled his talk ‘ A Layman 's View ’ , but you can expect some thought-provoking views . |
| 45 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
| 46 | Right , and we may , we may expect that to be the case , you know , clothes do n't have , textiles do n't have many substitutes . |
| 47 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 48 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 49 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 50 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 51 | In a normal year ( that is , not a boom year or a slump year ) , we should expect aggregate transitory income to be zero , so that aggregate measured and permanent incomes would be equal . |
| 52 | In general , if one individual is able to make its future actions plainer than another and if it derives benefit from doing so ( which does not seem implausible in a social context ) , then we should expect evolutionary change in the effectiveness of such signals . |
| 53 | Chappy was good for about 23 goals a season in all major competitions , With Deane 's greater overall contribution we should expect 18 from him . |
| 54 | Where management rewards in publicly owned concerns are institutionally determined , we should expect such concerns to perform less well than privately owned firms in which salaries relate to performance . |
| 55 | As we said in section 2.3 , we should expect this to reduce the cost and increase the volume of lending and borrowing with possible consequences for both the balance between consumption and saving and the level of aggregate demand . |
| 56 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 57 | The evidence presented in Tables 9.3 and 9.4 lends weight to the statement that being less risky we should expect less return from fixed interest investments whichever country is being considered . |
| 58 | Gorbachev 's call for more substantial arms cuts contrasted with the view of the then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that " I do n't think we should expect further dramatic reductions in forces " . |
| 59 | It seems we should expect another DEC Alpha AXP box in between Jensen and Triumph : this one 's code named Morgan , after still another English sports car . |
| 60 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |