Example sentences of "one would expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although the blood groups of the parents are almost certainly incompatible , one would expect diseased foals to be very exceptional because the first offspring is rarely affected . |
| 3 | One would expect modern social representations to incorporate opposing themes ( see Billig , 1982 , for a discussion of the internally contradictory themes of modern ideology ) . |
| 4 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 5 | One would expect existing sentence patterns to be stabilised in use , and to be only minimally disturbed upon being combined to form more complex syntactic units . |
| 6 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 7 | If the contention of Pollak and others is correct that the roles of women reduce the public display of deviance , then it is indeed in such ‘ private ’ areas that one would expect female forms of deviance to be located . |
| 8 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
| 9 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 10 | This imposes restrictions on the type of chain which can be crystallized with ease and , as mentioned earlier , one would expect symmetrical linear chains such as polyesters , polyamides , and polyethylene to crystallize most readily . |
| 11 | One would expect self-selected leisure activities to be different from and complementary to those at work . |