Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | For example whatever the nature of the case be it acute or chronic I would expect to see some signs of improvement indicating a curative response within a very short while . |
2 | So as I say I would expect to see these percentages significantly increased erm . |
3 | Few people write a first draft perfectly and you should expect to complete several revisions . |
4 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
5 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |
6 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
7 | On , on , on past experience that 's roughly what the yield has been , on an average year you would expect to get that . |
8 | In concrete terms , Miliband has argued that in a capitalist society , the interests of private capital will invariably and necessarily be taken into account in the development of public policy and so we should not expect to see business leaders standing on a soap box anymore than we should expect to see those who enjoy the ear of government organising on the streets . |
9 | Saddam Hussein 's actions are a response to Third World powerlessness — and one we should expect to see more of . |
10 | Time is money , and one must expect to see more pressure being brought to bear to reduce to a minimum the time taken from the start of a project to the arrival of the product on the shelves . |
11 | If the above argument is correct one might expect to find that , in other situations where the division of labour is less fixed , there would be more diverse patterns of kin support across gender lines . |
12 | If what Jespersen suggests were true , however , one might expect to show some tendency to be dropped in the uses where it is " meaningless " and there is no sign of this occurring in any of the functions listed either by Buyssens or by Jespersen . |
13 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
14 | ‘ Naturally we shall expect to hold these . |
15 | However , in practice , if your claim is successful we would expect to recover all or most of your legal costs in addition to the compensation and so there would be little or no shortfall . |
16 | The implications of this for employment are that we would still expect to see large-scale manufacturing in developed countries , absorbing substantial amounts of labour ( though this labour would be involved in knowledge work rather than metal-bashing ) ; and we would expect to see more labour employed again in small firms producing semi-custom-made products or services using machinery produced by the large companies . |
17 | ‘ And while we would expect to win that game at home , I 'm under no illusions . |
18 | Consequently , as in all-male groups in modern gelada populations , we would expect to find much less in the way of mutual antagonism and more in the way of sociability and cooperation . |
19 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
20 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
21 | If the secularisation of the working-class had gone ahead as rapidly as Engels wished to believe , one would expect to see some reflection of this in figures showing the growth of Rationalist and Secularist Societies . |
22 | These have to take account of the possibilities of accidents leading to damaged cores and one would expect to see this done for Sizewell . |
23 | When the distribution of revenue is seen to be equitable , one would expect to see this intransigence diminish and with it doubts about the commitment of the UK to the EC . |
24 | One would expect to pass those kind of suburbs while lifting the eyes to what still lay in the centre , busy , well kept , and profitable . |
25 | As compression techniques improve and storage becomes greater , we can expect to see more and more disc based products which combine , in consumer entertainment , education , training and even in business communications , digital sound , data , graphics and moving pictures to create genuinely multimedia information products . |
26 | In the future we can expect to see this technology integrated into the motherboard circuitry — initially for use in portable computers to reduce the unit weight and power requirements . |
27 | In our own case , if we can wash our face on our UK print run we can expect to make some profit from foreign licences . |
28 | Namely , wherever there is a difference in form , they should expect to find some difference in meaning . |
29 | Thus those who were in middle-class occupations will almost certainly enjoy larger pensions and more comfortable houses , and they can expect to suffer fewer disabilities , and live longer too . |