Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hm , I 'll expect the other friends will take something . |
| 2 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |
| 3 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 4 | I would expect the American people would also react very favourably to it . ’ |
| 5 | You 'd expect the unhelpful advance publicity to make him wary of the Press . |
| 6 | Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card . |
| 7 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 8 | Just as you would expect the fabulous Theme Park combined America 's colourful past , present and future in one glorious location , and those same world famous attractions you can see in California and Florida — MAIN STREET USA , FRONTIERLAND , ADVENTURELAND , FANTASYLAND , DISCOVERYLAND — will all be lovingly re-created right here in Europe . |
| 9 | Of course , you would expect the native breed i.e. Exmoor and they are registered by the Exmoor Pony Society ( address from editor , ‘ Today 's Horse ’ ) . |
| 10 | As you would expect the high level of vitality in children means they respond quickly and they generally wo n't need as many doses of the remedy . |
| 11 | So you can expect the geometric pattern lounge carpet to look sharp in years to come . |
| 12 | Perhaps , as with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , this is where we may expect the next rifting , though I doubt if it will happen soon enough to substantiate my idea . |
| 13 | We should expect the mass-selling tabloid press to have a stronger influence on public attitudes and choices than on public information and perceptions . |
| 14 | ‘ With you , one should expect the unexpected . |
| 15 | As Barr et al ( 1989 ) put it , ‘ We must expect the new independent hospitals to act like any profit-maximising firm . |
| 16 | Equally one might expect the full-time paid CAB worker , who normally eschews the middle-class volunteer , to cheer the broadening of the CAB volunteer base . |
| 17 | Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR . |
| 18 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |
| 19 | In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 21 | Alternatively , we might expect the predation- pattern to show a form of apostatic selection ( Clarke , 1962 ) : the dog-whelks choosing the most frequently encountered of the potential prey species . |
| 22 | If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future . |
| 23 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 24 | From what has been said , we would expect the heaviest proportionate effects of the government 's many methods of reducing employment to fall on the North . |
| 25 | In long-run equilibrium , we would expect the real return on a firm 's investments to equal its cost of capital , i.e. r= p . |
| 26 | Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology . |
| 27 | We would expect the best response from people who are re-evaluating their lives — a change of work , home or relationship — allowing their beliefs to be re-considered , ’ says Henry . |
| 28 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 29 | In such a situation we would expect the Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee to step in and examine the proposals . |
| 30 | But he adds : ‘ We would expect the French economy to remain relatively weak for at least the next year because its main trading partner , Germany , is itself entering what is likely to be quite a painful economic slowdown , brought about by the very high interest rates . ’ |