Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saddam Hussein 's actions are a response to Third World powerlessness — and one we should expect to see more of . |
| 2 | In concrete terms , Miliband has argued that in a capitalist society , the interests of private capital will invariably and necessarily be taken into account in the development of public policy and so we should not expect to see business leaders standing on a soap box anymore than we should expect to see those who enjoy the ear of government organising on the streets . |
| 3 | If we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour G Tec , and if G Tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems , and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services . |
| 4 | If these theories are by and large correct we should expect to find proteinoid globules occurring spontaneously in modern volcanic environments . |
| 5 | Namely , wherever there is a difference in form , they should expect to find some difference in meaning . |
| 6 | Few people write a first draft perfectly and you should expect to complete several revisions . |
| 7 | In this latter case it is important to realise that we should expect to get true hyphenated justification or H&J as it is commonly known . |
| 8 | Time is money , and one must expect to see more pressure being brought to bear to reduce to a minimum the time taken from the start of a project to the arrival of the product on the shelves . |
| 9 | ARIES — A YEAR dominated by Uranus , Neptune , Saturn and Pluto can not be easy , and Arieans must expect to face some difficulties and setbacks somewhere along the line . |
| 10 | Similarly , when the functions of institutions alter radically we may expect to see corresponding structural changes . |
| 11 | Stephen may expect to read any letters she receives , ’ answered Elizabeth . |
| 12 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 13 | By 1940 the first two might expect to live 60.2 and 55.9 years . |
| 14 | If what Jespersen suggests were true , however , one might expect to show some tendency to be dropped in the uses where it is " meaningless " and there is no sign of this occurring in any of the functions listed either by Buyssens or by Jespersen . |
| 15 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 16 | If the above argument is correct one might expect to find that , in other situations where the division of labour is less fixed , there would be more diverse patterns of kin support across gender lines . |
| 17 | How has modern portfolio theory been used to evaluate portfolio performance and show how and why you might expect to find different performance rankings from the different measures . |
| 18 | That 's where you might expect to find cold wine . |
| 19 | In this category we might expect to find phonological and grammatical features which are sufficiently different from British English to be salient , but which do not involve , in J.C . |
| 20 | Well it was just so funny , it 's just the kind of place you 'd expect to see naughty boys , there was you sitting to the |
| 21 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |
| 22 | Lastly , the ‘ Pre L ’ and ‘ Pre R ’ outs are the Acousticube 's only stereo outs , so they 'd expect to see considerable use . |
| 23 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
| 24 | I 'd expect to find deep-seated internal bruising , but it 's possible to get this without many superficial signs . |
| 25 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
| 26 | As the 18th century wore on , families could expect to see more and more of their children reach adulthood ; nevertheless , the survival rate of Charles and Elizabeth 's offspring — only six out of 13 reached their twenty-first birthday — is certainly nothing abnormal for the period . |
| 27 | Senior managers could expect to receive all or some of the following benefits : food on duty , accommodation , a car for business and private use plus running costs , one month ; s annual leave or more with at least one return air ticket to his country of origin for himself and his family , full medical and life cover , and possibly even school fees for his children either in the country of origin or that in which he is based . |
| 28 | A US congressional delegation said on Sept. 8 , after meeting both Gamsakhurdia and opposition leaders , that Georgia had to improve its record on human rights before it could expect to receive international recognition . |
| 29 | In all groups , female wage rates were a fraction of the corresponding male rates — except in clerical work , where women could expect to receive less than half that of men . |
| 30 | He was not told that socio-economic circumstances meant that he could expect to get bad examination results . |