Example sentences of "[pers pn] would expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You move into the south which is the area where landlord exploitation might have been at its most intense , where you would expect antagonisms to be greatest , where one would expect that peasants would be actually demanding land reform and , and indeed if you , you go back to , to the you 've clearly got that almost spontaneous underlying radicalism because of the , the intense landlord exploitation . |
| 2 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
| 3 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
| 4 | Japanese firms have enjoyed faster growth than American ones , so , on this basis , you would expect dividends to be lower . |
| 5 | We would expect regulations to be drawn up under those headings in the hope that the privatised companies would be obliged to act upon them . |
| 6 | We would expect horses to be more comfortable with a horse that looked like itself because it would also be likely to look like its mother . |
| 7 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 8 | We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work . |
| 9 | Mr Lyons said : ‘ We would expect talks with Neil Kinnock , John Smith and Gordon Brown to consider a framework within which manufacturing industry can thrive . |
| 10 | On a priori grounds we would expect humans to have an auditory area corresponding to temporal visual cortex since speech requires the categorical perception of sounds . |
| 11 | We would expect individuals to belong to more than one of these groups . |
| 12 | Where there is an increasing use of decentralised structures and accountability we would expect individuals lower down the organisation to take on more responsibility . |
| 13 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 14 | We would expect pupils to demonstrate their growing competence as both speakers and listeners by : |
| 15 | If this is a correct description of what is happening , we would expect speakers ' language behaviour to be characterised by : |