Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] expect [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 2 | She should have expected this turn-around . |
| 3 | We might have expected this switch to reinforce the downward trend in the ratio of direct to indirect tax receipts . |
| 4 | When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent . |
| 5 | Nor does cran — seem to carry any meaning into newly coined forms : we can make sense , for instance , of billy-giraffe and nanny-giraffe by analogy with billy-goat and nanny-goat , and also of foot the fees ; but creations like cranbeads and bilbeads convey nothing , although one might have expected some interpretation such as ‘ small round red beads ’ and ‘ small round purple beads ’ . |
| 6 | Fighting back tears , his 50-year-old widow Sam said : ‘ He gave his life to British Airways and could have expected some support from them . |
| 7 | ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , if in our experiments the effects of indomethacin were mediated by an increased production of leukotrienes , one would have expected that indomethacin reversed the beneficial effect of the linoleic diet but not that of the eicosapentaenoic acid diet , or at least not to the same extent , since the lipoxygenase products derived from eicosapentaenoic acid are weaker proinflammatory mediators than products derived from arachidonic acid metabolism . |
| 9 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 10 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 11 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 12 | From a writer who edited Elle in its snazziest phase you would have expected more nous . |
| 13 | Well I would have expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquors you 've obviously not had a licence for a month . |