Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [modal v] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | At very high temperatures , particles would be moving around so fast that they could escape any attraction toward each other due to nuclear or electromagnetic forces , but as they cooled off one would expect particles that attract each other to start to clump together . |
| 3 | Usually when a well-deserving photographer has a punch thrown at him by a celebrity , nobody bats an eyelid — unless the fist belongs to Sean Penn — indeed everybody used to expect Sinatra to take a swing . |
| 4 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
| 5 | Certainly one would expect judges to exhaust every resource available to them to avoid committing to prison ( in this instance for six years ) a person who has not had an answer to arguable grounds of appeal . |