Example sentences of "[pron] would expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'd expect the Marketing Director of a firm this size to claim twice as much for overnight stays . ’ |
2 | You know , this is what I would expect every group in the parish to do , to tackle areas where |
3 | In all the seminar based work mentioned above , I would expect the students to play a rather more organising role than previously . |
4 | From my experience of other , similar cases I would expect the cost of investigating your claim , including the cost of a full medical report and VAT , to be approximately £X . |
5 | Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together . |
6 | And the pr we 're er , I would expect the profits of Thames to be in line with that that we expected when we acquired the business . |
7 | I would expect the causes to be physical and psychological ; overwork , the ennui of middle age , or a need to find some meaning to existence . |
8 | I will not seek to justify this , any more than I would expect the Tories to justify the three day week , the Suez Crisis or any other element of their sordid history , for what we are discussing is a situation facing thousands of people in this district today , and what we are gon na do to ensure that they have a future . |
9 | They were as relaxed as you 'd expect a couple of dogs to be in the midday sun in the West Indies and clearly had life exactly as they wanted it . |
10 | " If a flat 's been unoccupied for some time , you 'd expect a pile of letters inside the door . " |
11 | It means a bit of cheating , will give you some idea of how they , at level one , on a picture a child , you 'd expect a child to pick out two things about buildings . |
12 | You 'd expect a wages clerk to be able to handle it would n't you ? |
13 | At night George did what you 'd expect a husband to but I did n't mind . |
14 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
15 | If you compare what most people earn what most people earned six years ago with what they earn now , they would expect that earning to have increased , so you 'd expect the budget to increase . |
16 | Obviously you 'd expect the revenue to do this , would n't you ? |
17 | You 'd expect the productivity to fall would n't you , if you were actually operating a fax service because you 'd save , you 'd take more time to monitor it |
18 | It 's also rumbly and hissy , and you 'd expect the DI to be virtually silent . |
19 | Semantically these quotations must appear curious to the modern reader , who would see a contradiction of terms in the notion of virtuous prejudice and who would expect the thwarting of prejudices to be a matter for praise not blame . |
20 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
21 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
22 | And I will have a piece of tape which says , ‘ Well yes of course you would expect the Chairman of the County Council to get food poisoning in this particular restaurant because we have prosecuted him three times . |
23 | In fact the more positive one is , the more positive you would expect the other to be . |
24 | If they 're negatively correlated , then you would expect the Z score for one to be positive and the other to be negative , or negative and positive . |
25 | ‘ Well , you would expect the majority of modules to be certificated successfully because they are being run by professional staff in centres which have been validated — in other words the centre 's resources , staff and support systems have been found to be adequate to run each module . |
26 | When you can not discover the length of the cone it is best to err on the generous side whilst using your previous experience to decide how many cones you would expect the garment to take . |
27 | When you can not discover the length on the cone it is best to err on the generous side whilst using your previous experience to decide how many cones you would expect the garment to take . |
28 | ‘ From this trading account , you would expect the business as a whole to have made a thumping loss for the year … |
29 | You would expect the tropics to support more life than the high latitudes , simply because they receive more solar energy . |
30 | You would expect the governments of most democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect ; but no . |