Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] been expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests that Lotka 's Law has limitations at the extremes , but since the Law is related to Normal Distribution statistics , this should perhaps have been expected . |
| 2 | This suggests that Lotka 's Law has limitations at the extremes , but since the Law is related to Normal Distribution statistics , this should perhaps have been expected . |
| 3 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 4 | Such a boycott might reasonably have been expected to damage SDLP more than other parties but in fact the percentage of first preference votes cast for SDLP rose slightly from 22.1% in 1973 to 23.7% in May 1975 ( see page 26 ) . |
| 5 | By s14(3) a person 's knowledge includes knowledge which he might reasonably have been expected to acquire from facts observable and ascertainable by him or from facts ascertainable by him with the help of medical or other appropriate expert advice which it is reasonable for him to seek . |
| 6 | For several reasons , it might also have been expected , and will be seen later to have been the case , that some of the younger teachers in the higher status selective schools might become allies of those in the universities beginning to press for change . |
| 7 | Esther Breuer might well have been expected to approve this advice , with its implication that depth rather than breadth is of importance , and intimate knowledge of a corner more valuable than a sketchy acquaintance with the globe . |
| 8 | Other unions which had either supported the earlier feasibility study , or might otherwise have been expected to be sympathetic , came up with only feeble amounts . |
| 9 | They appeared to be more aware of the misery and realities of war than might otherwise have been expected . |
| 10 | He did not know and could not have been expected to know the qualities of petrol . |
| 11 | The court said that in the circumstances of that case the auditor could not have been expected to act as a specialist valuer , and was therefore not liable for failing to reach that higher standard . |
| 12 | Rebaya and her daughter purchased the materials necessary to men to make incense sticks and again have achieved a degree of financial independence which six months before could not have been expected . |
| 13 | I recall no occasion of feeling ‘ physically better ’ , and that could hardly have been expected , rather a sense of a lantern lighting a gloom , or an astounding view unfolding . |
| 14 | In the 1970s they had been required to obtain land for future projects , and they could hardly have been expected ? sell at such severely-depressed prices . |
| 15 | The circumstances being what they were , Richard must have known I did not , but since he knew almost nothing about me except that I was willing , he could hardly have been expected to care . |
| 16 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
| 17 | It is sometimes said that in the light of the historical tension between Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad , things could hardly have been expected to turn out otherwise . |
| 18 | if you in fact avoid or reduce your loss , you can not recover the amount so saved , even if the steps that you took were more than could reasonably have been expected ; |
| 19 | A joint venture between competitors or potential competitors may infringe Article 85 of the Treaty of Rome if the participants could reasonably have been expected to enter the market individually , and in such cases the creation of an EEIG will not obviate the need to seek an exemption , or at least a comfort letter , from the Commission . |
| 20 | Frame had since 1961 been a dynamic and highly successful liaison officer , and could reasonably have been expected to serve the BDDA for several more years . |
| 21 | To explore these avenues we usually need to know something about how or why the document was created , and what the writer could reasonably have been expected to know . |
| 22 | This is further emphasised by s2(6) of the Act , which provides that in any prosecution for publishing an obscene article , " the question whether an article is obscene shall be determined without regard to any publication by another person , unless it could reasonably have been expected that the publication by the other person would follow from the publication by the person charged . " |
| 23 | ‘ Of course , Yeats could n't have been expected to know that . ’ |
| 24 | She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone . |
| 25 | It was James I wanted at this moment , more than Toby , who could n't have been expected to understand this . |
| 26 | But do n't blame yourself — you could n't have been expected to warn me and risk your own job . |
| 27 | It should be realised that the amount stocked would only have been expected to last a relatively short time . |
| 28 | This prediction , too , was supported but the pattern of results shown by right handers ( non-inverters ) was closer to that of left inverters than to that shown by left non-inverters , which would not have been expected on Levy and Reid 's hypothesis . |
| 29 | In this connection , he claims that an increase in the number of myelomas ( tumour of the bone marrow ) in the area during the 1970s would not have been expected as a result of iodine-131 contamination , but could have arisen from ingestion of polonium-210 , an alpha emitter . |
| 30 | The messages were often banal , but sometimes gave surprising information about a participant which the medium would not have been expected to know . |