Example sentences of "[pron] would expect a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | " If a flat 's been unoccupied for some time , you 'd expect a pile of letters inside the door . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At night George did what you 'd expect a husband to but I did n't mind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It raises the question of internal control and we would expect a bank facing this difficulty to inform us right away , ’ said an official . |
| 8 | When we would expect a feeling to be expressed to some extent by both partners but instead one person is quite overcome with emotion while the other is apparently untouched , we may assume that one carries and expresses the feeling for both . |
| 9 | We would expect an anchoring of the path at one end or the other to reduce at least a portion of the breadth-first search . |
| 10 | All organisations exist within some wider context and we would expect an organisation 's culture to reflect this . |
| 11 | In contrast , we would expect an example like ( 6 ) to produce a relatively high rate of plural continuations , since it is likely that the two meet in order to carry out joint activities . |
| 12 | If the anti-conspiracy rhetoric were pan of an argument against the tradition , as opposed to an argument within it , then one would expect a disengagement from the ideology of conspiracy . |
| 13 | In other words , the list operates at a much higher level of pre coordination of concepts than one would expect a thesaurus to support . |
| 14 | Since AFDC is specifically directed at the relief of poverty , one would expect a correlation between the level of poverty in a State and the number of recipients there . |
| 15 | Moreover , Buzzell and Gale argue that , as larger-share businesses do not continuously increase their ROI differential over small-share businesses , one would expect a zero correlation between the change in ROI and market share , which is broadly what Jacobson and Aaker found . |
| 16 | To see the point of the question , generalize Lipsey 's diagram and reflect that , since amendment and replacement are fluid alternatives , one would expect a process of gradual and continuous accumulation . |
| 17 | Since the phonemes are distributed among only six categories ( approximately half the number of mid-class categories ) , there is a considerable loss of information , and one would expect an increase in the size of the equivalence sets . |
| 18 | Ed Wallis , of PowerGen , was the first to openly admit that having paid the piper , he would expect a choice of tune . |