Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are girls who talk glibly of how they intend to reach the top of the women 's professional game by the age of 25 , and from there move on to marriage and a family , the Solheim Cup served as a salutary reminder that no-one should expect quick results . |
| 2 | As for Mark Crowe , the Argus sport and nature ramble hack , well , I thought I could expect some loyalty there . |
| 3 | The SmartLink Pocket Modem 24 was fine , but at £249 I 'd expect better software than FaxNow ! |
| 4 | It does n't have error correction or data compression and for £249 , I 'd expect these features to be standard . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If interest is earned in a separate account from the cheque account I would expect automatic transfers to keep the cheque account at an agreed limit . |
| 7 | Our farm has shown growth right from grandfather 's day in 1921 and I would expect that growth would continue . |
| 8 | I shall expect all papers and documents to come with the account . ’ |
| 9 | Hello darling , come on I said to her when she goes back to Tumbletots I shall expect big things of her . |
| 10 | If he is n't just amusing himself , then I can expect total siege . |
| 11 | Therefore the chances are , and this is statistical , it 's a statistical chance , in general I can expect any mutation in me to be passed on to half my offspring complete . |
| 12 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
| 13 | He was referring to ‘ prime ’ and ‘ premium ’ sausages in which you might expect leaner meat , less filler material , or less fat . |
| 14 | Though you might expect some echoes of a Telecaster or a Les Paul Junior , it actually sounds like neither . |
| 15 | He also talked in Morocco to Barbara Walters of ABC news , Walters was among those Western journalists with whom the Shah was on good terms and who could expect exclusive interviews when they came to Teheran , as well as personal attention from the Iranian ambassador in their won countries . |
| 16 | As you 'd expect strong traces of the surging Pixies sound remain , but they 're delivered with a more melodic , playful edge , almost as if splitting up the band has allowed the real Black to emerge . |
| 17 | Coming from the lead guitarist in a band who 've only just released their second single , you 'd expect such remarks to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt . |
| 18 | The programme never described him as such , though he certainly wields the authority you would expect that title would give him . |
| 19 | Even against the estate , the ride/handling/steering/braking package is by far the most convincing , as you would expect given SVE 's involvement . |
| 20 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
| 21 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 24 | In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears . |
| 25 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 26 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 27 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 28 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |