Example sentences of "we would expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We would expect individuals to belong to more than one of these groups . |
| 8 | Where there is an increasing use of decentralised structures and accountability we would expect individuals lower down the organisation to take on more responsibility . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We would expect pupils to demonstrate their growing competence as both speakers and listeners by : |
| 11 | If this is a correct description of what is happening , we would expect speakers ' language behaviour to be characterised by : |