Example sentences of "what [pron] would expect " in BNC.

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1 You know , this is what I would expect every group in the parish to do , to tackle areas where
2 Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said .
3 ‘ That 's not an unusual reaction ; in fact it 's what I would expect .
4 He moved cautiously now , unused to the preludes , unsure of what she would expect .
5 A bush tree is exactly what you would expect it to be ( bushy ) , but at the right height for picking and pruning comfortably .
6 At the end of the debriefing we are all still on speaking terms , and no one disagrees violently with the criticism of his performance , which is What you would expect from anyone Who aspires to take their profession seriously .
7 ‘ The corrosion rate is not out of line with what you would expect of a steel hull lying in quiet sea water , ’ claimed John Bernie , head of the National Physical Laboratory 's National Corrosion Service .
8 ‘ Economical , refined , clean but also powerful , BMW 's diesel is what you would expect of BMW but no less remarkable for that ’
9 A gradual shift towards a broadly social democratic position is just what you would expect to accompany a move towards a mass system .
10 All it covers is the basic treatment in line with the minimum requirement in the country where you are staying — and that can be very different from what you would expect from the NHS .
11 These details are really what you would expect .
12 A spokesman for Littlewoods says : ‘ They were perfectly happy modelling the clothes , but that 's what you would expect from these highly professional girls — they are adaptable . ’
13 They 're just what you would expect to encounter on safari — except that the backdrop for these elephants is not the wilderness of Africa 's vast plains but the flower-bedecked veranda of a neat house .
14 And that 's a hundred and seventy , which is what you would expect for your age .
15 Better yet , it also includes a VxD ( virtual device driver ) for use with Windows in Enhanced ( 386 ) mode , which actually speeds transfers up — which is not what you would expect , really .
16 Aside from the Bishop , it was what you would expect .
17 Well that 's it , it ca n't be right , it ca n't be right , because what you would expect in there , is another sort of perspex piece that comes at an angle like that .
18 This is intuitively what we would expect and we would say that it was due to a lack of sleep .
19 Certainly when Jacob appears to have his assailant in his power , it is precisely what we would expect .
20 Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative .
21 This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory .
22 The theory has to cope with situations in which the dynamical properties of particles , such as electrons , protons and neutrons , and even atoms , are very different from what we would expect of a scaled-down billiard ball following its usual ‘ classical ’ behaviour .
23 What we would expect you to do is to consider various alternative methods of pricing and to come out with a recommendation .
24 How far down the social scale the possession of seals extended is not known , but the carrying of personal identification tags is exactly what we would expect of such a minutely organized society .
25 This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location .
26 What we would expect to find therefore is :
27 Like the pelagic trilobites , individual graptoloid species are very widespread , which is what one would expect of an animal with the wide ocean as its habitat .
28 Evidence from the Home Office consultant pathologist , Professor Alan Usher , discovered no abnormality except pneumonia due to lung statis ; ‘ exactly what one would expect in poisoning by a respiratory depressant drug . ’
29 Their search led , by the middle of the 1940s , to a compound , 2:6-diaminopurine , which had effects in mammals and chicks ‘ about what one would expect of a substance which interferes with nucleic acid metabolism in some way ’ .
30 And , to make it all seem almost too good to be true the total number of possible W particles seen by both UA1 and UA2 is just what one would expect from the total number of proton-antiproton collisions that the two experiments have observed .
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