Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been expected [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played Bobby Dupea with explosive sensitivity , as a promising musician who rejects a career to become an oil-rigger ; a rebel who , like Nicholson himself , had the chance of taking a particular course in life which would have provided him with comfort and stability , but chose a different route to that which might have been expected of him . |
| 2 | Maud 's living room was not what might have been expected of a Victorian scholar . |
| 3 | And we can not help but contrast the generous appreciation of Dryden by Eliot , who might have been expected to be temperamentally less in tune with him . |
| 4 | The majority in favour of allowing sole practice on the traditional model to continue without restriction might have been expected to be larger given the preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole . |
| 5 | The 7% margin against the Council 's plans for monitoring visits to sole practitioners might have been expected to be larger in view of the fact that the response as a whole was weighted so heavily in favour of sole practitioners . |
| 6 | The Building Societies Act was a response to structural changes in the financial services market , whereas the Banking Act and the Financial Services Act were responses to cases of fraud and bad practice , and as such are ‘ defensive ’ forms of regulation that might have been expected to be overdetailed and expensive to implement ( Goodhart 1988 ) . |
| 7 | This is not the support that might have been expected for fellow Germans stuck on the communist side after 1945 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The horrors of eighteenth-century madhouses engender disbelieving revulsion in the twentieth century , yet throughout the last thirty years scandal after scandal has been reported in the press with depressing regularity and without the concern that might have been expected in an apparently liberal and caring society . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | An association between the ACE/ID polymorphism and blood pressure might have been expected from its anticipated effect on vascular tone and architecture . |
| 16 | Leadership might have been expected from the more substantial merchants , members of the élite merchant guilds established by Peter and reformed by Catherine . |
| 17 | Certainly in the matter of military aid , as the working party concluded , the US ( without sending troops ) was in a position to make a unique contribution : but even more positive results might have been expected from economic assistance . |
| 18 | In addition to relief forms , which he described as in no way different from those which might have been expected from water action , there are great waste fans at the foot of the Andes in the desert . |
| 19 | Both of the hypertonic ORS contained higher glucose concentrations and higher water obsorption might have been expected from these solutions because of a greater stimulatory effect on active glucose transport . |
| 20 | As might have been expected from his career , he outstayed his welcome and had to be forced to retire from the post — a position previously rewarded with a peerage , but which for him only merited a knighthood . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Paul Hale 's devotion to duty went beyond what could have been expected of anyone , said Mr Justice Otton . |
| 23 | If she does not , they will have the consolation of knowing that they did all and more than could have been expected of those unfamiliar with the assistance which the court can give in such situations . |
| 24 | Police reports alleged that raids on Ershad 's residence after his arrest on Dec. 12 [ see p. 37907 ] had revealed assets in excess of those which could have been expected from a presidential income , as well as large quantities of unlicensed firearms . |
| 25 | But the Gospels themselves confirm that Jesus and his entourage , in keeping with what would have been expected of the Messiah , were militant nationalists who did not shrink from violence . |
| 26 | But in view of the difficulties , more would have been expected of the occasion : more in time — an extra day perhaps — and more in emotional commitment . |
| 27 | By 1988 interim results indicated that around 10 per cent fewer accidents occurred than would have been expected without the schemes . |
| 28 | Among other findings , this produced five cases of young leukaemia within eight miles of the plant over the period 1979–84 , where less than one would have been expected on the basis of national rates . |
| 29 | This is about 10 more , she says , than would have been expected From the whole 8000 servicemen who , she says , took part in the South Pacific tests between 1957 and 1958 . |
| 30 | The actual local air traffic will be compared with the level which would have been expected by natural growth as predicted by a successful Federal Aviation Administration model . |