Example sentences of "we [modal v] expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we may expect continuations to have to do with plumbing , in which the plumber is offering advice to Mary , and so they are playing different roles . |
| 2 | Suppose we wish to put a straight line unc through the following set of experimental points : unc Suppose further that , in view of the experimental method , we may expect errors in f to be proportional to t . |
| 3 | Given that it seems clear that we may expect students who are well qualified in traditional terms to achieve relatively high levels of academic achievement , an important measure of success may be the extent to which institutions are able to take students who are not well qualified traditionally and achieve relatively high success rates with these students . |
| 4 | Just as we could , perhaps , calculate the weight of the largest insect which could walk on a given liquid , so we can use these concepts to calculate how strong we ought to expect materials to be . |
| 5 | If Bartlett 's ( 1932 ) original view is correct we ought to expect changes in the pattern of recall of events . |
| 6 | All we can say is that ceteris paribus we should expect consequences of these kinds and then look at specific developments which would seem to illustrate the possibilities . |
| 7 | Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly . |
| 8 | The correspondence principle states that we should expect wages to be rising more rapidly the larger is X i . |
| 9 | So we should expect readers of different papers to be influenced in different directions depending upon the content of their own particular papers . |
| 10 | We must expect contractors to take care of all operations ON A project including : — |
| 11 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
| 12 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
| 13 | Part of the experiment was to hold a couple of quizzes at the time of year when we might expect problems with speakers and audience having to travel in bad weather . |
| 14 | We might expect students of dance or music to engage in practical activities , but their theoretical studies are , by and large , directly related to those activities . |
| 15 | We would expect regulations to be drawn up under those headings in the hope that the privatised companies would be obliged to act upon them . |
| 16 | We would expect horses to be more comfortable with a horse that looked like itself because it would also be likely to look like its mother . |
| 17 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 18 | We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work . |
| 19 | Mr Lyons said : ‘ We would expect talks with Neil Kinnock , John Smith and Gordon Brown to consider a framework within which manufacturing industry can thrive . |
| 20 | On a priori grounds we would expect humans to have an auditory area corresponding to temporal visual cortex since speech requires the categorical perception of sounds . |
| 21 | We would expect individuals to belong to more than one of these groups . |
| 22 | Where there is an increasing use of decentralised structures and accountability we would expect individuals lower down the organisation to take on more responsibility . |
| 23 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 24 | We would expect pupils to demonstrate their growing competence as both speakers and listeners by : |
| 25 | If this is a correct description of what is happening , we would expect speakers ' language behaviour to be characterised by : |
| 26 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |
| 27 | We are now in DIP 's third phase of evolution where we can expect vendors to supply comprehensive workflow software , providing intelligent automation of office tasks and complete integration with other computer systems in the business , as well as the automatic routing of document images to those who need to work with them . |
| 28 | Further , we can expect interactions between pure deictic M-tense concepts and cultural divisions and measures of time to show up in L-tenses . |
| 29 | As has already been said , if mining or industrial activity is involved rather than agriculture , we can expect settlements nearby to minimise the access time and cost of transporting materials . |
| 30 | From now to the end of the year we can expect governments to make a big effort to secure a settlement . |