Example sentences of "[modal v] expect find [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If these theories are by and large correct we should expect to find proteinoid globules occurring spontaneously in modern volcanic environments . |
2 | Namely , wherever there is a difference in form , they should expect to find some difference in meaning . |
3 | How has modern portfolio theory been used to evaluate portfolio performance and show how and why you might expect to find different performance rankings from the different measures . |
4 | That 's where you might expect to find cold wine . |
5 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
6 | In particular , one would expect to find two things . |
7 | Large organizations will consist of loosely coupled subsystems , and yet , within the subsystems , one would expect to find tighter coordination . |
8 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
9 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
10 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
11 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
12 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |