Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not reasonable to expect a tenant to have to accept construction works which may differ from those in the building documents and accordingly be less beneficial to the tenant than it may be expecting as a result of what the surveyors may be perceived to notice on an inspection . |
| 2 | In the UK , a merger referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) for investigation is appraised according to whether it may be expected to operate against the ‘ public interest ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Though your Majesty 's affections may be very well known as to religion , ’ he urged , ‘ yet it may be expected that you should say something for the world 's satisfaction . ’ |
| 4 | It may be expected that the practice of referring to these reports will extend itself in the future , because they often supply the best commentary upon the wording of an Act . |
| 5 | On this basis , it is hard to see what , if anything , a separate category of unlawful means conspiracy adds to the law and while not perhaps strictly abolished by judicial fiat it may be expected to fade away . |
| 6 | The meanings of these expressions was considered in the previous chapter , and it may be expected that they will be interpreted in essentially the same way in this context . |
| 7 | The point of a demonstration may be nullified if the target of the protest is not within the sight or hearing of the demonstrators , and it may be expected that it would only be in exceptional circumstances that conditions would be imposed preventing such a gathering . |
| 8 | As funds become increasingly mature with known monetary liabilities , it may be expected that the demand for assets whose terminal capital value is certain will rise . |
| 9 | Since then , however , there has been some decrease in military spending , in the early 1980s it was estimated at 4.5 per cent of global GNP , lower than public expenditure on education though still higher than that on health services ( Sivard , 1982 ) , and in the 1990s , with the ending of the cold war , it may be expected to decline more rapidly . |
| 10 | With the creation of a single European market , it may be expected that a good command of a European Community language and familiarity with the country in which it is spoken will become an increasingly valued asset . |
| 11 | As substantial interindividual differences in synthesis of bile acids exist , it may be expected that the SeHCAT test could be more sensitive in evaluation of ileal uptake , especially in the borderline case . |
| 12 | It should be expected that children will be upset by such dramatic changes in their lives and this needs to be acknowledged and supported . |
| 13 | In this chapter we shall be looking at the range of sexual opinions , ideas and practices in Britain today : for the most part , it must be expected , broadly similar among the majority of our fellow countrymen but extending widely beyond these broad norms in many individuals or groups . |
| 14 | Although not immediately apparent in studies of ‘ variable ’ plant species , it must be expected , in view of the non-uniform disperser fauna in tropical regions , that wide-ranging species will probably be shown to have such patterns . |
| 15 | However it might be expecting a lot for him to win four races and it could be that Simon Beck , who starred at the TT , will score his first Irish success . |
| 16 | At the rime of bringing up a young family it might be expected that the woman 's role would be primarily in the home . |
| 17 | There were no significant differences in the present study between the never and the previously married although it might be expected that people with children might be less likely to go into a home than those without any and the widowed , divorced , or separated are much more likely to have children than the single : 75 per cent compared with 6 per cent . |
| 18 | The justifiability rule has yet to receive widespread judicial consideration in the context of education , but it might be expected to be applied more strictly . |
| 19 | It might be expected that subsequent cohorts of elderly people will be more likely to have children , and be survived by them , but other social and economic trends may reduce their ability and willingness to assume caring responsibilities for aged parents . |
| 20 | Pavlov ( 1927 ) expressed the view that the OR evoked by a novel stimulus constituted an ‘ obstacle ’ to conditioning ; and indeed , if conditioning is seen as a process in which the OR comes to be replaced by the CR , it might be expected that pre-exposure to the CS would facilitate this process . |
| 21 | In West Sussex the English elm ( Ulmus procera ) is nearing extinction and it might be expected that the large numbers of standing dead trees will , at least temporarily , provide large amounts of insect food and sites for hole-nesting species . |
| 22 | The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership . |
| 23 | In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% . |
| 24 | Although it might be expected that only the better-educated and wealthier sections of the community would watch television , the existence of the extended family system meant that the television sets owned by prosperous Zambians were also watched by a number of relatives who were less well off . |
| 25 | ‘ It might be expected that a substantial proportion of these also involved stolen vehicles , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Indeed commentators on test-case litigation in both the UK and the USA appear agreed that the main value of test-case litigation derives from its contribution to the broader process of political mobilisation rather than from any direct change in the law which it might be expected to bring about . |
| 27 | This module would , Minsky suggests , alone have access to the model ( again possibly false , of course ) of how it itself related to all the other , lower , modules , and it might be expected to have some property of the type we refer to as consciousness or self-consciousness . |
| 28 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 29 | Therefore it might be expected that up to 20% of winters will produce Arctic ozone holes for doubled CO 2 conditions . |
| 30 | If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage . |