Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] been expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 2 | The inflation figures , and even pay settlements , have been less awful than might have been expected . |
| 3 | Otherwise , the Commonwealth relationship remained more tranquil under Mrs Thatcher than might have been expected . |
| 4 | The Great and Good have proved more resilient than might have been expected . |
| 5 | I feared in Rome I detected a great change for the worse , but she has stood the journey well , better than might have been expected , and now , if all remains serene , we may see her build up again . ’ |
| 6 | The processes which keep alive a microbe , a spinach plant , and a human turned out to have more in common than might have been expected . |
| 7 | Beliefs which had become established almost as folk-law , such as the universally harmful effects of too much salt , had less support than might have been expected . |
| 8 | The remaining populace , disillusioned with their rulers and protectors , accordingly greeted the French emperor and his men with less hostility than might have been expected . |
| 9 | It was obvious to them that Danzig , up to the advent of the Nazis , had been far freer from racial strife and entrenched national rivalry than might have been expected in such a complex and explosive economic and political environment . |
| 10 | The casualty rate so far was no more than might have been expected from the hazardous nature of the operation , and although he could not , in all honesty , say he was in command of the whole ship , he at least held the strategic upper hand . |
| 11 | than might have been expected . |
| 12 | The parameters used to select patients for the trial , however , could have indicated several remedies other than Rhus toxicodendron , and the chances of any particular patient responding to the Rhus toxicodendron were little better than might have been expected by chance alone . |
| 13 | But Trafalgar caved in , and its chief executive is leaving the company earlier than might have been expected . |
| 14 | Nevertheless his reaction now was less than might have been expected , for he was an impressionable man where women were concerned . |
| 15 | We controlled the game better than might have been expected but this game is different and , however much you plan things , a goal can change everything . |
| 16 | The British came to Cannes with some pomp and ceremony and , for a disintegrating industry , made a bigger splash than might have been expected . |
| 17 | Korea was referred to more frequently than might have been expected in the summer of 1945 and the new President , Harry S. Truman , displayed some concern over Korea . |
| 18 | So in everything that follows , it should be borne in mind that the sample under discussion is — possibly more than might have been expected — a group close together in age , which could almost be regarded as a generation . |
| 19 | The process of re-selection of MPs has forced fewer changes than might have been expected : only six were rejected prior to the 1987 election . |
| 20 | Within the small towns , apparently independent bath-houses are more common than might have been expected given the general level of amenity provision ( fig. 5 D–H ) . |
| 21 | On the question of the effect of the GCSE upon arts teaching , a more positive picture emerged than might have been expected . |
| 22 | However , mixing of modes of the same symmetry and similar frequency often occurs , so that deuterium substitution causes shifts of more bands than might have been expected . |
| 23 | Official figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed industrial production declining by only 0.6 per cent compared with the same period of 1990 — a lesser decline than might have been expected in view of the Gulf crisis . |
| 24 | This factor seems to have made a solid contribution towards forging the Iranian forces into a much more effective fighting machine than might have been expected in 1979 . |
| 25 | Correct or not , this hypothesis does at least hint at the complexities which could have been involved when Æthelred 's counsellors sat down to decide whether to pay or fight , and offers one of a range of reasons why individual self-interest may have resulted in less fighting than might have been expected . |
| 26 | Overall , organisations have received many fewer access requests than might have been expected , although this echoes the experience of other European countries . |
| 27 | In addition to showing that the number of defective modern items issued is perhaps greater than might have been expected , the findings of the Survey also suggest that a number of items may be consulted with considerable frequency , for 94 requests remained unsatisfied because the desired item was already in use , and a further 59 items were supplied only after transfer from a previous reader 's reserve shelf . |
| 28 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 29 | The movement 's historian has described it as ‘ a landmark in Free Church history ’ although he admitted ‘ it did not take hold on the life of the Free Churches in the way that might have been expected ’ . |
| 30 | However , they also escaped the severe censure that might have been expected from the high-minded moralists who strutted busily through the Victorian England of his day . |