Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In view of the lengthy discussions on the nature of the deaf community , one might expect language attitude effects in learning sign language . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whereas one would expect the lexicon to be organised in a way that facilitates the access of items , one would expect working memory to be organised in a way that facilitated the discrimination of competing hypotheses . |
| 7 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
| 8 | As the action of an LCR is postulated to be mediated by a variety of transacting factors interacting with promoter/enhancer type sequences , with subsequent effects on chromatin domains ( 25 , and references therein ) ; we would expect chromatin structure analysis ( DH sites ) to be of particular use in localising regions of regulatory interest . |
| 9 | ‘ We would expect calendar year 1993 , based on the early performance and based on last year , to be a good solid year from a profit perspective , ’ Roach told the news wire . |
| 10 | Tours backed RUGBY UNION : Australia and New Zealand can expect government approval to play against South Africa . |
| 11 | You can expect 24–hour room service served up on time and with the minimum of fuss . |