Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Although there are girls who talk glibly of how they intend to reach the top of the women 's professional game by the age of 25 , and from there move on to marriage and a family , the Solheim Cup served as a salutary reminder that no-one should expect quick results . |
2 | Nobody should expect this sleeping dog to lie . |
3 | Generally , one may expect that , for a combination of gravitational and electromagnetic waves , a curvature singularity in region IV will usually occur . |
4 | There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) . |
5 | Accepting even a weak Whorfian view that language used influences thought and representation to some degree , then one might expect great differences in the way that deaf people structure information . |
6 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
7 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
8 | Henry Fairweather , group personnel and services director , acknowledges that most of its female managers are in areas one might expect such as marketing , information services and personnel . |
9 | One might expect that being a chant leader afforded a number of privileges within the group , but this in fact was not the case . |
10 | If ideology reflects economic organization , then one might expect that modern consciousness should contain its universalistic and its particularistic common-places . |
11 | If stars could shrink to as small as ten or twenty miles across to become neutron stars , one might expect that other stars could shrink even further to become black holes . |
12 | If the DNA-dependent phosphorylation of c-Jun is of physiological significance then one might expect that the presence of Jun binding sites ( FSEs ; refs. 24 and 25 ) within the activating DNA would increase kinase efficiency . |
13 | Because three-quarters of women with gonorrhoea will have the infection in the urethra , one might expect urethral discharge to be a common finding in infected women . |
14 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
15 | While one might expect eventual decisions to be made purely on the merits of the case , earlier evidence indicates that some objections are more likely to succeed in influencing decision-makers than others . |
16 | Where both husband and wife have substantial commitments to the job world , one might expect domestic responsibilities to be shared . |
17 | With such differences in the quantity and quality of mosaics one might expect different levels of stylistic affinity — and combinations of these levels — to be prominent . |
18 | If , however , the vertical axis is defined as attainable competitive strength , then one might expect most investment to take place in the top left corner . |
19 | As one might expect these ‘ real incomers ’ are not all the same to Shetlanders . |
20 | Examples are too numerous to list , but a particularly telling one from members of our own profession , where one might expect some awareness , can serve . |
21 | Over the last thirty years the achievements of physiologists and psychologists in studying dreaming have received a good deal of attention in the media , much of it sensationalist , so one might expect some of this information to have percolated through to become common knowledge . |
22 | One might expect this because convergent evolution would lead to similar mechanisms to carry out similar functions . |
23 | One might expect this to include advisory visits , aid with the development of study skills and so on , and to some extent this does happen . |
24 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
25 | Because of transport costs one might expect heavy building materials , such as cement , to be non-traded . |
26 | Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive . |
27 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
28 | One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem . |
29 | One would expect such issues to be handled in the training , both pre- and in-service , of all teachers , but our collective experiences and the responses received to the main LITE questionnaire suggest that they are not . |
30 | Many hon. Members on both sides of the House have cut their political teeth in local government and one would expect such Conservative Members to show more loyalty towards it . |