Example sentences of "would expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd expect you to stay a couple of years , but obviously there 's going to be no pressure on you to move on at the end of that period . |
| 2 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 3 | Still , the new 911 is a better car than the old one , as you 'd expect . |
| 4 | As you 'd expect in this part of the world , the route passes through spectacular countryside . |
| 5 | As you 'd expect on the Isle of Wight there 's an endless list of bed and breakfasts . |
| 6 | It 's interest-free , so I 'd expect to get it in eleven months and twenty-nine days from giving notice . ’ |
| 7 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 8 | ( b ) Possession is exactly the sort of book you 'd expect to win the Booker Prize . |
| 9 | ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household . |
| 10 | They were as relaxed as you 'd expect a couple of dogs to be in the midday sun in the West Indies and clearly had life exactly as they wanted it . |
| 11 | ‘ Normally we 'd expect about 2t/acre . ’ |
| 12 | That 's about what you 'd expect for a tractor of this size . |
| 13 | Richard thought the car ‘ very well designed , with the intelligent features you 'd expect from Volvo . ’ |
| 14 | as you 'd expect , the big attraction is the nightlife and the main drag is a long procession of bars . |
| 15 | Of course you 'd expect to find fly ash at any period since people began burning coal in quantity . |
| 16 | Everything you 'd expect from a Summer holiday — yet so much more |
| 17 | And as you 'd expect from Enterprise , all these prices are well below what you would pay in resort anyway . |
| 18 | As you 'd expect from such an upmarket resort , nightlife is excellent . |
| 19 | Nightlife is generally quiet in Scheffau , though as you 'd expect from such a friendly Tyrolean resort , fondues or barbecue parties and dancing to local music in the hotels and disco are all on offer . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd expect the Marketing Director of a firm this size to claim twice as much for overnight stays . ’ |
| 21 | That dratted child never seemed to hurry , but slipped along like a cloud shadow , faster than you 'd expect . |
| 22 | More or less what you 'd expect . ’ |
| 23 | The analogue recording is clean , smooth , and well-balanced , but benefits from being given a little extra playback volume to help bring the instruments into focus ; fortunately tape hiss levels are as low as you 'd expect on a good digital recording . |
| 24 | That 's what you 'd expect from some of the bitter old farts who used to fill the magazine with self-indulgent whimsy about lawnmowers and the ex-colonial buffers who let their subscriptions lapse when India was granted independence . |
| 25 | Given that on average each Spaniard eats 66 pounds of fish and seafood a year , and much of it comes from Galicia , you 'd expect to see a lot there . |
| 26 | ‘ You said only what I 'd expect you to say . |
| 27 | ‘ Only what you 'd expect . |
| 28 | As you 'd expect from a Japanese maker like Mazda , there 's a wide range of choice — where you want it . |
| 29 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
| 30 | As this is a disk-only game , you 'd expect quite an accomplished product with many detailed screens . |