Example sentences of "[pers pn] might expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 4 | You might expect Ashley Newton to agree with Clarke . |
| 5 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 6 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
| 7 | Explain why you might expect security betas to change over time . |
| 8 | It was a rough grey face , full of rifts and clefts and fissures , out of which , someone said , you might expect lichens to grow . |
| 9 | You might expect leopards to keep away from forest tracks frequented by humans but they often use them for preference . |
| 10 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 11 | Part of the experiment was to hold a couple of quizzes at the time of year when we might expect problems with speakers and audience having to travel in bad weather . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We might expect speaker B to be a little confused about how these elements relate to the preceding conversation . |
| 14 | We might expect students of dance or music to engage in practical activities , but their theoretical studies are , by and large , directly related to those activities . |
| 15 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 16 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He walked towards it , habit making him look about him , as if , even here , he might expect attack . |
| 19 | If he backed his superior , Marshal Yazov , and the putschists , he might expect promotion ; but he would still be far from the top . |