Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody should expect this sleeping dog to lie . |
| 2 | And you 'd expect some broken headlights or something here on the road . |
| 3 | Butyl is the best liner to work with because it 's more flexible , and you can expect many trouble-free years from it provided you do n't assume it 's immune to damage . |
| 4 | At the beginning of December , you can expect some extra developments regarding a domestic or professional matter , and this time you ca n't resist the winds of change . |
| 5 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
| 6 | He has sub-titled his talk ‘ A Layman 's View ’ , but you can expect some thought-provoking views . |
| 7 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
| 8 | There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) . |
| 9 | Even on a much simpler level , we must expect that normal human sexual attraction will play its part . |
| 10 | Therefore , we must expect some major changes in that region in the coming years and be prepared for anything that might arise as a result . |
| 11 | If stars could shrink to as small as ten or twenty miles across to become neutron stars , one might expect that other stars could shrink even further to become black holes . |
| 12 | If ideology reflects economic organization , then one might expect that modern consciousness should contain its universalistic and its particularistic common-places . |
| 13 | We might expect that aggressive fighting would be common in nature , because natural selection will favour the most successful animals in competition , and the strongest animals are probably the most successful in fights . |
| 14 | If we accept the ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ argument derived from the work of Kerr and Siegel ( see above , p. 108 ) , then we would expect all isolated mining communities to be equally strike-prone . |
| 15 | Naively , we would expect many more ordinary quasars , because there is only a small chance of a beam pointing straight at us : but the calculation must also consider the fact that BL Lac objects would on average appear to be brighter than other quasars ( because the doppler effect brightens a beam coming towards us ) , and so we would tend to pick up more of them . |
| 16 | Strongly stereotypical Creole features should be salient and positively valued as a symbol of identity , so we would expect these particular features of Creole to be accommodated to by everyone who attempts to engage in " chattin' Patois " . |
| 17 | Many hon. Members on both sides of the House have cut their political teeth in local government and one would expect such Conservative Members to show more loyalty towards it . |
| 18 | However , it seems that gravity should provide a limit , but only at the very short length scale of 10 -33 cm or the very high energy of 10 28 length scales shorter than this , one would expect that space-time would cease to behave like a smooth continuum and that it would acquire a foamlike structure because of quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field . |
| 19 | In the normal course of events , one would expect those high standards to suffice for more than five years ; but these are not normal times . |
| 20 | One would expect this large amount of positive feed-back to lead to instability : as soon as the input is strong enough to excite one or two neurons , one would expect these to feed back on to others and initiate an explosive chain reaction . |
| 21 | It seems we can expect yet-another Intel-based desktop operating system to make an appearance this summer . |
| 22 | Cloud amounts will vary but we can expect some warm sunshine . |
| 23 | So in spite of the Conservatives domination of the area , we can expect some exciting contests in this election and perhaps even some upsets . |
| 24 | At private meetings over meals or in his office North would produce his spiral notebook or pieces of yellow legal paper , asking ‘ how in God 's name we can expect these young men and women to fight against Communism when this is what they 're up against ’ , and often breaking into tears . |