Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] expect [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams , who saw his initial Derby prospect , Pond Tornado , eliminated , said : ‘ I would expect New Level to win his heat but Pond Pavarotti is on a wing and a prayer . |
| 2 | If he is n't just amusing himself , then I can expect total siege . |
| 3 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
| 4 | Even against the estate , the ride/handling/steering/braking package is by far the most convincing , as you would expect given SVE 's involvement . |
| 5 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
| 6 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 7 | In general , if one individual is able to make its future actions plainer than another and if it derives benefit from doing so ( which does not seem implausible in a social context ) , then we should expect evolutionary change in the effectiveness of such signals . |
| 8 | c ) Since our view of the language will change profoundly , we must expect substantial influence on the specification of syllabuses , design of materials and choice of method . |
| 9 | If genes could discover a chink of an unorthodox route through to another body ( alongside , or instead of , the orthodox sperm or egg route ) , we must expect natural selection to favour their opportunism and improve it . |
| 10 | Because three-quarters of women with gonorrhoea will have the infection in the urethra , one might expect urethral discharge to be a common finding in infected women . |
| 11 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 12 | Because of transport costs one might expect heavy building materials , such as cement , to be non-traded . |
| 13 | As Foresman ( 1986 ) suggests , we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role . |
| 14 | The net effect will vary according to the cost conditions within the particular industry under consideration , and within the real world we might expect considerable variation from one industry to another . |
| 15 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
| 16 | But hang on , the fingerboard 's maple where we 'd expect African rosewood , and it looks wider . |
| 17 | It said in a statement that ’ in future , if any any competitor is found to have traces of Clenbuterol in his urine , we would expect disciplinary action by the weighlifter 's association . ’ |
| 18 | Where hedges become very interesting , and suggest a huge meadow of fresh research , is when they appear in contexts where a priori we would expect total precision , such as in scientific lectures . |
| 19 | Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved . |
| 20 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 21 | One would expect existing sentence patterns to be stabilised in use , and to be only minimally disturbed upon being combined to form more complex syntactic units . |
| 22 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
| 23 | One would expect self-selected leisure activities to be different from and complementary to those at work . |
| 24 | If it is severe , we can expect serious dissatisfaction . |
| 25 | He has warned the council that unless it rectifies this situation it should expect strong opposition against the bill . |
| 26 | So long as he taxes spirits in a highly discriminatory fashion at home , he can expect other Member States to follow suit . |
| 27 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |
| 28 | He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided . |