Example sentences of "one [vb mod] expect [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 2 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 3 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 4 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
| 5 | This seems unlikely , however , because one might expect females to be just as much in need of protection as males . |
| 6 | One might expect politicians to talk fast and academics endorsing the view that the European Community is something so new and sui generis that the age old problems of the rivalry between peoples and states can be overcome through it . |
| 7 | In view of the lengthy discussions on the nature of the deaf community , one might expect language attitude effects in learning sign language . |
| 8 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 9 | The estimate for the two albums is £150,000–200,000 , and one might expect interest to be shown by an Italian State collection such as the Museo degli Argenti in Florence . |
| 10 | The general condition was extremely dangerous and one could expect difficulty in trying to gain any access as the stairway was so derelict . |
| 11 | He was not prepared to preach to the British — ‘ I do n't really know too much about them ’ — but he did say that no one could expect success without putting in a great deal of hard work . |
| 12 | For greater detail , they would have to rely on a chain of fast horses aided by signals , and no one could expect miracles . |
| 13 | consider that in certain circumstances one would expect laterality scores to correlate with overall accuracy scores , they favour the use of an index of laterality that is independent of accuracy in the sense that the values which the index might take within the total range of values possible is not " constrained " by any given level of accuracy . |
| 14 | At very high temperatures , particles would be moving around so fast that they could escape any attraction toward each other due to nuclear or electromagnetic forces , but as they cooled off one would expect particles that attract each other to start to clump together . |
| 15 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 16 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
| 17 | Certainly one would expect judges to exhaust every resource available to them to avoid committing to prison ( in this instance for six years ) a person who has not had an answer to arguable grounds of appeal . |
| 18 | It was not what one would expect Aunt Margaret to have chosen for herself . |
| 19 | Whereas one would expect the lexicon to be organised in a way that facilitates the access of items , one would expect working memory to be organised in a way that facilitated the discrimination of competing hypotheses . |
| 20 | If songs have been evolved by males because of competition for mates , one would expect males of polygamous species to have more complex songs than monogamous species . |
| 21 | One would expect works on Religion , Philosophy and the English Classics in the library of a scholar but it is surprising to find that there are only a handful of books in Gaelicin the collection of one of the translaters of the Holy Scriptures into that language . |
| 22 | As one would expect campanology has played a part in family life , and is shared with husband , daughter and grandsons . |
| 23 | The model used to allocate traffic between competing services is , however , very sensitive to relative prices , so , one would expect increases in Eurotunnel 's costs to give rise to a lower market share and hence to lower revenues . |
| 24 | The one organization which one would expect workers would see as being part of their own world ( one of the ‘ us ’ ) would be trade unions . |
| 25 | Zeus 's head is lost , but seems to have been turned to his proper right , and on this , the side of good omen , one would expect Pelops to stand , as he does in fig. 124 . |
| 26 | Since eating sugar will give the yeast a burst of growth and therefore precipitate symptoms such as bloating within a few hours , one would expect sufferers from candidiasis to be averse to sugar . |
| 27 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | One would expect author — illustrators to provide some of the best examples of text — picture unity and they do . |
| 29 | With the low volume of piston-powered traffic one would expect fuel to be expensive — and it is : 70–75 pence per litre . |
| 30 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |