Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] expect the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you 'll have to expect the worst . ’ |
| 2 | This appears to be the case even in youth subcultures where one might have expected the greatest changes . |
| 3 | Moreover , the new credits entailed a transfer from husbands to wives or , as the issue came to be known , from ‘ wallet to purse ’ , and hence one might have expected the male-dominated TUC to be opposed to them . |
| 4 | One might have expected the intense difficulties confronting British film producers to stimulate discussion ; instead it seems to have narrowed their perspective . |
| 5 | The concept of education vouchers fits remarkably well into the Tory programme of privatisation' of the social services and one might have expected the Conservative Party to move quickly towards a practical scheme of education vouchers … |
| 6 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |