Example sentences of "[pron] might expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 2 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
| 3 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 4 | This seems unlikely , however , because one might expect females to be just as much in need of protection as males . |
| 5 | The estimate for the two albums is £150,000–200,000 , and one might expect interest to be shown by an Italian State collection such as the Museo degli Argenti in Florence . |
| 6 | Part of the experiment was to hold a couple of quizzes at the time of year when we might expect problems with speakers and audience having to travel in bad weather . |
| 7 | We might expect students of dance or music to engage in practical activities , but their theoretical studies are , by and large , directly related to those activities . |
| 8 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |