Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the last thing I 'd expect of Oliver . |
| 2 | Just as I 'd expect of Maurice 's sister . ’ |
| 3 | This '90 has the earthy flavour I would expect from Bergerac , but is soft and ripe , almost creamy in texture , so it really works . |
| 4 | If this is the kind of wild thinking I can expect from Wave , then I for one am happy . |
| 5 | As you might expect from relatives of the iris , the two sets of petals , concentric whorls of three , can be remarkably different . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's more what you 'd expect of Durham country than Hertfordshire . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And as you 'd expect from Enterprise , all these prices are well below what you would pay in resort anyway . |
| 9 | Richard thought the car ‘ very well designed , with the intelligent features you 'd expect from Volvo . ’ |
| 10 | Unfortunately , its anorexic attractions are exactly the kind of thing you 'd expect from people who only formed a band in the first place to get off the dole . |
| 11 | It 's got a long history , lots of it confused as you 'd expect in Oxford of course . |
| 12 | The knowledge that the only help you could expect in times of trouble or need would have to be sought from a near neighbour ; and , even more fundamental , the bond of blood . |
| 13 | As you would expect of Britain 's leading publisher of legal information for business and industry , we have devised a loose-leaf reference service that will keep you up-to-date monthly with all the important legal developments likely to affect your business . |
| 14 | ‘ Economical , refined , clean but also powerful , BMW 's diesel is what you would expect of BMW but no less remarkable for that ’ |
| 15 | Interior presentation , as well as general fit and finish , is as good as you would expect from Toyota . |
| 16 | ‘ Well produced and excellent value for money , it has the professional look you would expect from crack North-East journalist Mike Amos . ’ |
| 17 | We chose as the venue , where else but , the Champagne Hotel of the north where Ian Corner , David Chell and their staff are bravely grasping the nettle of recession whilst continuing to perform as you would expect from Manchester 's top City Centre Hotel . |
| 18 | ‘ A book that is as rich and funny as you would expect from Mary Wesley ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If you 're away fro home , try to find out what you can expect for breakfast . |
| 21 | National parks and wildlife sanctuaries provide as near perfect conditions as you can expect for painting wildlife and we have chosen the Seewinkel area and Lake Neusiedl in Austria as our base . |
| 22 | Part Two — Working in the ES — summarises the key points you will need to know about what you can expect in terms of support and entitlements from your new employer and other useful information ; and |
| 23 | In the meantime , in this first article we will look at what your rights as a purchaser are , what you can expect from goods purchased , how to resolve some irritating problems with items already purchased , and some tips for avoiding the aggro in the first place . |
| 24 | The MLA produces two leaflets which are available free of charge : Take a closer look at your master locksmith , which outlines the various services you can expect from master locksmiths , and The guide to home protection , which offers invaluable advice on how to protect your home . |
| 25 | Certainly the reading content of the recommended book for Class 2 in Sierra Leone which I saw being used with very young children in Freetown schools is far above the average reading level one might expect for six-year-olds in London who speak English , not Creole , at home . |
| 26 | The resultant shown in the diagram is the sort that one might expect in Britain , which is an area of dominant westerlies . |
| 27 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 28 | Let us now return to consider the kind of assistance one might expect from computers in relation to the particular areas of personnel work referred to earlier . |
| 29 | As one might expect from John Major , he drank only mineral water in 1990 , his one stint with the budget box . |
| 30 | But The Waste Land 's sounds , rather than sights , come closest to enacting savage ritual , as we might expect of Eliot 's ‘ auditory imagination ’ . |