Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] expect of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy was creative in attack , as you would expect of any protégé nurtured at Upton Park , and he possessed a fierce shot . |
| 2 | As one might expect of such an assembly of talent , Sahara Blue is a stately , tasteful listen , but only at its best captures the poet 's urgency and potency . |
| 3 | One aspect of performance that one might expect of any machine that was to pass the test ( by behaving in such a way that the human interlocutor never even suspected a machine was present ) would be to have the sort of final authority over what state it was in that we normally concede to humans : when Jones , on the neurosurgeon 's table , insists that he is in pain , we tend to allow his authority even though the neurosurgeon says that , given the position of the brain probe at that moment , he should not be . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Merulo , as one would expect of such a prolific instrumental composer , included in his second book of motets ( 1593 ) 7 per concerti e per cantare , and after his death were published two remarkable Masses , on Giaches de Wert 's madrigal ‘ Cara la vita mia ’ for two choirs and on Andrea Gabrieli 's ‘ Benedicam Dominum ’ itself a three-choir work — for three . |
| 6 | The paradox is that restorers are now making as much fuss of these ephemera as one would expect of older and more permanent works . |