Example sentences of "[modal v] expect the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority voting equilibrium is then the public goods quantity demanded by the person with median income , and — if tastes are unchanged — we should expect the level of spending to vary with median income . |
| 2 | In short , we should expect the demand for bank lending to vary inversely with the rate of interest charged . |
| 3 | If we now think about a crack proceeding inwards from the surface of a stressed material ( Figure 1 ) we should expect the area of material in which the strain is relaxed to correspond roughly to the two shaded triangles . |
| 4 | Probably it should have been , as this is a use which the producer should expect the product to be put to . |
| 5 | These days , we should expect the drivers of all trains to have two-way communication at all times with the signal box and those who are in control of the track . |
| 6 | Clearly the ornithologist must expect the evolution of agriculture to continue , and its most likely result will be to produce a much more uniform habitat with consequently a much less varied bird population than at present , composed of a comparatively few widespread and adaptable species . |
| 7 | These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us . |
| 8 | Furthermore , of course , if the government did possess an important informational advantage there would be a strong incentive for the private sector to obtain the same information , so one might expect the advantage to be gradually eroded . |
| 9 | All we have to do is to find out what the brains of our common ancestors looked like to find out how similar we might expect the brains of mammals to be . |
| 10 | We might expect the throne for some generations to be occupied by a more or less yellow king ; but can any one believe that the whole island will gradually acquire a white , or even a yellow population , or that the islanders would acquire the energy , courage , ingenuity , patience , self-control , endurance , in virtue of which qualities our hero killed so many of their ancestors , and begot so many children ; these qualities , in fact , which the struggle for existence would select , if it could select anything ? |
| 11 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 12 | You might expect the creator of such grisly images to be a bit of a ghoul himself but Hutson is a small , chirpy bloke who lives with wife Belinda in a new , mock-Tudor Bovis home in Milton Keynes , listens to heavy metal music and supports Liverpool . |
| 13 | You might expect the governments of democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect ; but no . |
| 14 | The new night shift is coming on outside and they 'll expect the household to be in bed . |
| 15 | I 'll be absolutely open with you — we do have difficulties over cash , but when you see the business we 've got lined up … well , this time next year I 'll expect the bank to be standing me a slap-up lunch ! |
| 16 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
| 17 | It 's also rumbly and hissy , and you 'd expect the DI to be virtually silent . |
| 18 | Nor was such military service the only obligation on which the sixth-century Merovingians could rely : they could expect the provision of hospitality , which could be an extremely costly business , as when Chilperic I 's daughter , Rigunth , set out to meet her intended husband in Spain — her retinue devastated the country it passed through . |
| 19 | The tesserae are still applied to a bed of mortar , but the client could expect the work in the room which was actually receiving the mosaic to be finished much more quickly than with the direct method . |
| 20 | No one could expect the blessing of the Most High for such pursuits . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you would expect the majority of modules to be certificated successfully because they are being run by professional staff in centres which have been validated — in other words the centre 's resources , staff and support systems have been found to be adequate to run each module . |
| 22 | Since this is not stabilized by the formation of additional hydrogen bonds we would expect the binding to be weaker ( see below ) . |
| 23 | Whereas one would expect the lexicon to be organised in a way that facilitates the access of items , one would expect working memory to be organised in a way that facilitated the discrimination of competing hypotheses . |
| 24 | In a between-species cross , in which there is even greater dissimilarity between the antigens , one would expect the rejection to be even more axiomatic , but the immunological evidence is difficult to interpret . |
| 25 | If speculative efficiency is true , we would expect the likelihood from the unrestricted model to differ insignificantly from that of the restricted model . |
| 26 | And I will have a piece of tape which says , ‘ Well yes of course you would expect the Chairman of the County Council to get food poisoning in this particular restaurant because we have prosecuted him three times . |
| 27 | It was hardly the way her readers would expect the creator of Nathan Latimer to react to a crisis , she thought , ashamed of her weakness . |
| 28 | Semantically these quotations must appear curious to the modern reader , who would see a contradiction of terms in the notion of virtuous prejudice and who would expect the thwarting of prejudices to be a matter for praise not blame . |
| 29 | In fact the more positive one is , the more positive you would expect the other to be . |
| 30 | That is invoked in other contexts : if a Faraj is attacked by members of Fahmi , they should unite as Ibrahims , and indeed a Faraj would expect the support of the Fadhils in those circumstances . |