Example sentences of "would [verb] be expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jack Meredith , chairman of the AMA 's public transport committee , said that while bus patronage was declining prior to deregulation , the Tyson report showed that the fall in journeys was between 100 and 200 million more than would have been expected . |
| 2 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 3 | Among other findings , this produced five cases of young leukaemia within eight miles of the plant over the period 1979–84 , where less than one would have been expected on the basis of national rates . |
| 4 | Last year , a passive solar collector on a house would have been expected to pay for itself in 12 to 15 years . |
| 5 | This is about 10 more , she says , than would have been expected From the whole 8000 servicemen who , she says , took part in the South Pacific tests between 1957 and 1958 . |
| 6 | By 1988 interim results indicated that around 10 per cent fewer accidents occurred than would have been expected without the schemes . |
| 7 | This in itself was unusual , as the high-ranking patrons would have been expected to display classical scenes in their houses , leading to the supposition that these intimate portraits of courtesans were most probably on view only in the private apartments . |
| 8 | Previously those living with their parents would have been expected to continue living there . |
| 9 | But the Gospels themselves confirm that Jesus and his entourage , in keeping with what would have been expected of the Messiah , were militant nationalists who did not shrink from violence . |
| 10 | If Hazel had been a human being he would have been expected to introduce his companions one by one and no doubt each would have been taken in charge as a guest by one of their hosts . |
| 11 | To be fair , Potter was behaving better than would have been expected — cold yet civil . |
| 12 | This increase is particularly impressive since the decline in marriage rates in the 1970s would have been expected to reduce household formation among young people , since historically young married couples have tended to set up their own households , and young single people to remain with their parents . |
| 13 | But in view of the difficulties , more would have been expected of the occasion : more in time — an extra day perhaps — and more in emotional commitment . |
| 14 | The days with one casualty were Sunday 6 January and Sunday 10 February ; on both these days there was snow and traffic volumes were observed to be lower than would have been expected had the weather been fine . |
| 15 | The young lover proposes to lie back and watch others work while he listens to birds singing , freeing himself from the duty and responsibility shepherds would have been expected to attend to . |
| 16 | less funding than it would have been expected to have . |
| 17 | The actual local air traffic will be compared with the level which would have been expected by natural growth as predicted by a successful Federal Aviation Administration model . |
| 18 | This did not show men to be more lateralised visuo-spatially than women as would have been expected . |
| 19 | If the lowering of serum cholesterol values was the result of tumour activity , obvious differences in serum cholesterol values as the tumours progressed from stage A to stage D , or as they become more de-differentiated would have been expected . |
| 20 | If only passive properties determine the pressure elastic modulus , an exponential increase would have been expected . |
| 21 | Such an action would have been expected to lower the cyclic AMP content irrespective of the agonist used to stimulate the cells . |
| 22 | Over this time , 0.022 melanomas would have been expected in the local population . |
| 23 | No second primary melanomas were seen in this group , whereas 0.026 would have been expected . |
| 24 | As would have been expected , the construction with the bare infinitive expresses direct perception of an event — to be more precise , the possibility of direct perception ( because of could and might have ) . |
| 25 | Mooney was left out of the derby game against Middlesbrough on Monday and would have been expected to play in the Pontins Central League game . |