Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose I ought to expect to be bullied . |
| 2 | Now that I 'm a family member I 'll expect to be properly insured and have a maintenance contract . ’ |
| 3 | You , at least , I 'd expect to be a bit of a sport ! ’ |
| 4 | I would expect to be consulted as I was . |
| 5 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |
| 6 | Other British manufacturing industries which could expect to be hit by the changes include car tyres , paper goods , ceramics , glassware , pipes , and CDs and audio tapes . |
| 7 | Causing grievous bodily harm to someone now you might say that 's a very serious offence which you should expect to be prosecuted . |
| 8 | I love Ma , but she must expect to be unhappy because she 's reached that time of life . |
| 9 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 10 | Nor can he always rely on the help of those who in any other industry or service you might expect to be on his side . |
| 11 | Whether you climb , walk , run , or just stroll from your car for a picnic , then you 'll expect to be able to do so free of problems ; not to be shouted at abusively or shot at ( it still happens occasionally ! ) ; not to be spurned from the hills by aggressive signs erected by indignant landowners , or find endless and unyielding deer fences encircling your 232nd Munro ; not to discover destruction from in appropriate developments over a once beautiful area . |
| 12 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 13 | ‘ Is it the kind of machinery you would expect to be ordered for the factory ? ’ |
| 14 | Suggest a set of sequences of assignment statements , which you would expect to be typical of programs involving arithmetic calculation . |
| 15 | All scores below the mean , if you converted them to a Z score you would expect to be negative . |
| 16 | Touch legering , like so many things worth doing , needs to be practised before you can expect to be proficient . |
| 17 | With both types , the lenders have your new home as security , but since they 're taking a bigger risk than normal , you can expect to be charged a higher rate of interest . |
| 18 | You can expect to be promoted within two or three years of qualifying . |
| 19 | When these anxieties are ministered to by the products of the instant government under which we now with remarkable acquiescence subsist and are abetted by draftsmanship of the esoteric kind sometimes adopted by our professional brothers south of the border , we may expect to be confronted by problems of dimensions quite disparate to the simple issues which are essentially involved . |
| 20 | In the meantime , we should expect to be surprised very often . |
| 21 | A measure of the scheme 's effectiveness is that the United Kingdom has the fifth highest drug prices in Europe ( about where we should expect to be ) . |
| 22 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 23 | The heads of the metatarsals were fused , which one would expect to be accomplished by nineteen years , but fusion had not taken place in the secondary pelvic centres . |
| 24 | For another thing , areas that one would expect to be homologous on the basis of their connections appear totally different in other ways . |
| 25 | Churchmen , whom one would expect to be most militant about the matter , responded with anything from sceptical but unsurprised indifference to outright endorsement . |
| 26 | The most noteworthy cases are those which one would expect to be pleonastic , but are not . |
| 27 | One of the many unusual facets of Hannah Hauxwell is her reaction to certain situations which would daunt much more apparently sophisticated people and which one would expect to be overwhelming for a simple soul from the back of beyond , such as meeting , on level terms some of the famous and mighty , or appearing in front of milling crowds and even standing up to address them . |
| 28 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 29 | It is in fact a moot point whether one would expect to be able to classify all flows as either turbulent or non-turbulent — or , equivalently , whether during transition to turbulence one should be able to designate the point at which turbulent motion begins . |
| 30 | If the roof blows off such a lavatory , of course one will expect to be annoyed . |