Example sentences of "would expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theoretically , one would expect the Northern catholic community and the six counties of Ulster to be considered a lost remnant , unredeemed from British rule , and indeed this is by far the most popular interpretation . |
| 2 | Inevitably we would expect that those who freely accept the teaching of our Church will vote according to their consciences . |
| 3 | A bush tree is exactly what you would expect it to be ( bushy ) , but at the right height for picking and pruning comfortably . |
| 4 | The books — almost as much a symbol of Jewishness as the Mogen David itself — are by and large well thumbed , though fewer than one would expect . |
| 5 | Martin , tall with a roll-necked sweater under a grey suit , played war games ; John , slightly paunchy with a beard , was into steam trains — he took photos of them ; Julian , fair , well-dressed , with crooked teeth , divorced , spent Saturdays with his children and would expect her to do so too if they suited each other ; Lewis , in three-piece suit and striped shirt , supported the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools ; Gerald , a mild , bushy-haired man , described with passionate precision the arrangement of the plants in his garden . |
| 6 | Sure enough , we would expect the input systems to ensure that the right kinds of distinctions are drawn — between contour changes that define occlusion and those which define disappearance , for example — but this surely does not mean that the possessor of these input systems is capable of thinking about unperceived entities . |
| 7 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 8 | It is , cynics might say , exactly the conclusion one would expect from scientists in the pay of the CEGB . |
| 9 | Supporting the review , Tom Burlison , northern regional secretary of the GMB general union , said the public would expect a Labour government to use whatever was the most effective means of eliminating nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We would expect to see variations between authorities if the allowances had been used as intended . |
| 11 | Mr Clarke : ‘ I would expect that most would stop and offer assistance . ’ |
| 12 | JULIA FORDHAM Porcelain ( Circa 10 ) ‘ You make me feel vulnerable and totally exposed , ’ is not a lyric you would expect from Kylie Minogue , or even Liza Minnelli . |
| 13 | Stuff of nightmares No one expects the life of a Peruvian gold prospector to be easy , but I doubt if many would expect to die from the bite of a rabid vampire bat . |
| 14 | Unveiling details of the £1.7m deal , Ed WAllis , PowerGen 's chief executive , candidly said he would expect some say in the way the weather was presented . |
| 15 | Ed Wallis , of PowerGen , was the first to openly admit that having paid the piper , he would expect a choice of tune . |
| 16 | The entire kitchen ( there must have been a brigade of 50 where one would expect more like 12 ) , belongs to some turn-of-the-century grand Parisian establishment , but strangely there was only one washer-upper . |
| 17 | The model used to allocate traffic between competing services is , however , very sensitive to relative prices , so , one would expect increases in Eurotunnel 's costs to give rise to a lower market share and hence to lower revenues . |
| 18 | From what we know about their audience and their content , we would expect major differences between the influence of television and the influence of the press , and major differences also between the influence of highbrow and lowbrow sources . |
| 19 | Both coastal and inland clubs offer dinghy parking areas , changing room , safety boat cover and the facilities you would expect of a club house , including catering and a bar . |
| 20 | Therefore , on historical precedent , in contemplating the origin of a modern archbishop we would expect him to be educated at Oxford or Cambridge ; to have a good chance that he taught there ; and to be the son or grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 21 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 22 | After that they would expect His Majesty to grant a dissolution . |
| 23 | Interior presentation , as well as general fit and finish , is as good as you would expect from Toyota . |
| 24 | Even against the estate , the ride/handling/steering/braking package is by far the most convincing , as you would expect given SVE 's involvement . |
| 25 | The top dozen or so jockeys would expect to ride over half the winners in a season . |
| 26 | This is intuitively what we would expect and we would say that it was due to a lack of sleep . |
| 27 | Instead , the times when one would expect the ultradian rhythm to produce a burst of activity or feeding drop out . |
| 28 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Even those one would expect to have rejoiced at the religious revival which Lewis 's popularity heralded and to a certain degree inspired could only bring themselves to sneer . |