Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Realistically we should expect a mixed experience as at the start of all major new programmes . |
| 2 | The Christians should expect the indwelling Spirit to make a difference . |
| 3 | I may expect no mass media to crusade , no millions of strangers to become suddenly familiar with my name and anxious for my cause . |
| 4 | In view of the potential benefits to be gained by local communities from providing food and accommodation and other requirements , one might expect every small town and village throughout rural Scotland to be demanding a long-distance recreational route on their doorstep . |
| 5 | Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions . |
| 6 | Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself . |
| 7 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 8 | We might expect a clear relationship , for example , between the number of school children and the amount of spending on education . |
| 9 | He says , One might expect a big man to have big bottles , but if you are giving a big dinner party its very practical to have magnums . |
| 10 | Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either . |
| 11 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |
| 12 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 13 | Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR . |
| 14 | In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) . |
| 15 | Alternatively , we might expect the predation- pattern to show a form of apostatic selection ( Clarke , 1962 ) : the dog-whelks choosing the most frequently encountered of the potential prey species . |
| 16 | If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future . |
| 17 | Hm , I 'll expect the other friends will take something . |
| 18 | Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card . |
| 19 | ‘ With most criminal kidnaps you could expect a long wait . |
| 20 | Stevens was one of the most meticulous of film directors and any actor working with him could expect a gruelling time . |
| 21 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |
| 22 | Important or insignificant , customs appointments were , however , obtainable only by those who could expect a political favour , and many of the officers were in fact the nominees of a member of parliament and often the active partisans of that politician . |
| 23 | Therefore , as Ernest Tuveson points out in Imagination as a Means of Grace : ‘ From the nature of mind as described by Locke we could expect a new poetry to be highly visual in nature , for the faculty of sight came to monopolize the analysis of intellectual activity . ’ |
| 24 | Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty . |
| 25 | He consulted diviners when Anne Boleyn became pregnant , anxious to know whether he could expect a male heir . |
| 26 | They were sure I could expect a large present from her , either before or after her death . |
| 27 | If a company can limit its interruption claim to a period of three months rather than three years , it could expect a premium reduction of between 25 and 50 per cent . |
| 28 | In effect , as McKay and Cox indicate ( 1979 , p. 255 ) , ‘ no sensible observer inside government or out could expect the limited measure announced in 1977 to transform the inner city ’ . |
| 29 | Supporting the review , Tom Burlison , northern regional secretary of the GMB general union , said the public would expect a Labour government to use whatever was the most effective means of eliminating nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We would expect a Labour government to sweep away all those laws which conflict with the right to union recognition , which conflict with the social charter , and which conflict with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation , such as banning unions at GCHQ , Cheltenham , and banning collective pay bargaining for teachers . ’ |