Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 2 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 3 | I think it was very very important as well for Leicester to get a goal while they 're having a good good spell because er there 's no there 's no doubt I would expect Forest to put a far more sustained pressure on the second half with the wind in their backs . |
| 4 | But I shall expect film directors to call me Sir Anthony . |
| 5 | ‘ I will bring the shoes I am making for you now , the ones with the amethysts as decoration and I will expect payment for the work I 've done , mind . |
| 6 | You may expect direction and advice which will not be forthcoming . |
| 7 | Power was indeed divided , in such a way as to place restraints upon popularly elected assemblies ; and it was the view of Hamilton that a representative democracy avoided the dangers clearly inherent in " simple democracy " : When the deliberative or judicial powers are vested wholly or partly in the collective body of the people , you must expect error , confusion and instability . |
| 8 | If you live here you should expect country noises . ’ |
| 9 | You might expect air conditioning , leather seats and at least a stereo when you pay over £50,000 for a car , but not if it 's a Mercedes you 're buying . |
| 10 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 11 | Explain why you might expect security betas to change over time . |
| 12 | Neither semantics nor logic requires V P structure , a priori , that is there 's no particular reason why you 'd expect verb phrase structuring in particular from either of those two enterprises , because either could get by with er either the flat structure Florence teased Dougal , that 's the structure in T three three separate constituents , or teased Florence Dougal where teased is one constituent and Florence Dougal is another which is the way we most standardly do it calculus and that works fine . |
| 13 | And again you would expect socialization and environmental factors to operate , and clearly they do in a trivial sense . |
| 14 | Now what I 've done here is just put that in a table saying that if score A has a negative Z score , then you would expect score B to have a negative score . |
| 15 | You can expect 24–hour room service served up on time and with the minimum of fuss . |
| 16 | When I say that you can expect evolution to jump from the insect to one of its immediate neighbours , but not to jump from the insect directly to the fox or the scorpion , what I exactly mean is the following . |
| 17 | You can expect turmoil early this week — but do n't let it get to you . |
| 18 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 19 | Given that the net flow of support is normally from older to younger generations , we should expect support in this direction to be more extensive . |
| 20 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 21 | We might expect speaker B to be a little confused about how these elements relate to the preceding conversation . |
| 22 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |
| 23 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |
| 24 | The best season for an eastwards voyage was already past , though it was just possible that we might run far north and cross in the high latitudes where , even in summer , we could expect fog , rain and cold . |
| 25 | But the scheme is not limitless in its resources and we would expect licence holders to accept modest fees . ’ |
| 26 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 27 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 28 | In humid tropical environments , where organic activity is very high and leaching intense , we would expect silica to be removed in solution as silicic acid : |
| 29 | If organisations are pluralist in nature such that different groups and individuals can influence the decision-making process then we would expect competition between these groups who will represent different interests . |
| 30 | If we house them we need to look after all the people , we make no apologies for the fact that this is a budget slanted towards equal opportunities and to an anti-poverty strategy and that is something that we will fight to preserve and we would expect support from at least some quarters in order to achieve an egalitarian status in this city . |