Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should expect the mass-selling tabloid press to have a stronger influence on public attitudes and choices than on public information and perceptions . |
| 2 | The Christians should expect the indwelling Spirit to make a difference . |
| 3 | ‘ With you , one should expect the unexpected . |
| 4 | History suggests that Hongkong Bank should expect the worst after 1997 ; it lost all but one of its 33 branches in mainland China in 1949 . |
| 5 | As Barr et al ( 1989 ) put it , ‘ We must expect the new independent hospitals to act like any profit-maximising firm . |
| 6 | Perhaps , as with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , this is where we may expect the next rifting , though I doubt if it will happen soon enough to substantiate my idea . |
| 7 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |
| 8 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 9 | Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR . |
| 10 | Equally one might expect the full-time paid CAB worker , who normally eschews the middle-class volunteer , to cheer the broadening of the CAB volunteer base . |
| 11 | In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) . |
| 12 | Alternatively , we might expect the predation- pattern to show a form of apostatic selection ( Clarke , 1962 ) : the dog-whelks choosing the most frequently encountered of the potential prey species . |
| 13 | If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future . |
| 14 | Hm , I 'll expect the other friends will take something . |
| 15 | Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card . |
| 16 | You 'd expect the unhelpful advance publicity to make him wary of the Press . |
| 17 | In effect , as McKay and Cox indicate ( 1979 , p. 255 ) , ‘ no sensible observer inside government or out could expect the limited measure announced in 1977 to transform the inner city ’ . |
| 18 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |
| 19 | Most organizations would expect the following : |
| 20 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 21 | Just as you would expect the fabulous Theme Park combined America 's colourful past , present and future in one glorious location , and those same world famous attractions you can see in California and Florida — MAIN STREET USA , FRONTIERLAND , ADVENTURELAND , FANTASYLAND , DISCOVERYLAND — will all be lovingly re-created right here in Europe . |
| 22 | Thus while both Higgenbotham ( 1983 : 124 ) and Palmer ( 1988 : 189 ) feel that a sentence such as John was seen to leave has the reporting " see that " meaning ( i.e. " Somebody saw that John left " ) , Mittwoch ( 1990 : 121 ) points out that if this were the case one would expect the perfect form of the infinitive to be completely acceptable and complement negation to be considerably better in a passive sentence than in the corresponding active one , which is not the case in ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) : ( 61 ) ? |
| 23 | On this hypothesis one would expect the eastern spit , Sandbanks peninsula in the case of Poole Harbour , to be in a state of decay due to the cutting off of the supply of material by the breach . |
| 24 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 25 | Will the Leader of the House confirm that although few people in Britain would expect the Prime Minister to match President Yeltsin bottle for bottle , they will find it odd that the Government insist on increasing or doubling Britain 's nuclear fire power when both the Russians and the Americans see good reasons for cutting theirs ? |
| 26 | From what has been said , we would expect the heaviest proportionate effects of the government 's many methods of reducing employment to fall on the North . |
| 27 | Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology . |
| 28 | Fewer patients were referred from peripheral hospitals in the region , even though one would expect the many peripheral hospitals jointly to have seen as many patients with similar problems as the fewer large central district general hospitals . |
| 29 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 30 | On average , one would expect the faint sources to be the more distant ones . |