Example sentences of "[pron] might expect [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
2 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
3 | It was a rough grey face , full of rifts and clefts and fissures , out of which , someone said , you might expect lichens to grow . |
4 | You might expect leopards to keep away from forest tracks frequented by humans but they often use them for preference . |
5 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
6 | One might expect politicians to talk fast and academics endorsing the view that the European Community is something so new and sui generis that the age old problems of the rivalry between peoples and states can be overcome through it . |
7 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
8 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
9 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |