Example sentences of "might expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 2 | By 1940 the first two might expect to live 60.2 and 55.9 years . |
| 3 | If what Jespersen suggests were true , however , one might expect to show some tendency to be dropped in the uses where it is " meaningless " and there is no sign of this occurring in any of the functions listed either by Buyssens or by Jespersen . |
| 4 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 5 | If the above argument is correct one might expect to find that , in other situations where the division of labour is less fixed , there would be more diverse patterns of kin support across gender lines . |
| 6 | How has modern portfolio theory been used to evaluate portfolio performance and show how and why you might expect to find different performance rankings from the different measures . |
| 7 | That 's where you might expect to find cold wine . |
| 8 | In this category we might expect to find phonological and grammatical features which are sufficiently different from British English to be salient , but which do not involve , in J.C . |