Example sentences of "[modal v] be expect [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Therefore , dividends should be expected to contain information . |
2 | The other market incentives/deterrents that might be expected to align management and shareholder interests will be briefly noted at the end of this chapter and examined in some detail in Chapter 4 . |
3 | Or suspicion springs from an accumulation of complaints , from the physical signs of untidiness or carelessness , from characterization of a discharger from prior contact as ‘ the sort of person ’ who might be expected to give trouble , or characterization of a plant or business as ‘ the sort of firm or occupation ’ which causes problems . |
4 | Wendy the Rolls has a happy cruising speed of around 50 and at her age , she might be expected to take life easy . |
5 | Other legislation , such as the doctrine of restraint of trade , the Restrictive Trade Practices Act and Arts 85 and 86 of the Treaty of Rome ( monopoly and abuse of a dominant position ) , all have potential application , but might be expected to take account of similar public policy principles . |
6 | Resisting the idea that results should somehow be ‘ doctored ’ to reflect such circumstances , the Group fell back on the suggestion that LEAs or governors might be expected to issue statements that would put the results of particular schools in the right context . |
7 | That might be expected to benefit others on the left . |
8 | They write of the purpose behind the Nottinghamshire teams as involving the explicit premise that casework and service coordination at the level of individual clients should logically take second place to the creation of more adequate service infrastructure — at least in the first instance ( Wistow and Wray , p 16 ) Developmental teams of the Notts kind , then , might be expected to place priority on establishing a range of new services , " accommodation services , adult placement schemes , family support services , play schemes , parent groups and Further Education courses " ( Wray and Wistow , op cit ) . |
9 | The section of the Manifesto entitled The Institute and Professional Success does list a number of detailed objectives that might be expected to help firms increase their profitability , the most important of which is that ‘ unless required by public interest , the Institute should not seek to impose regulations which have the effect of restricting the freedom of members to succeed professionally and commercially ’ . |
10 | Data from a large sample will show the earliest age at which a child would be expected to gain control of a particular aspect of language , and the age by which 90 per cent or 95 per cent of non-handicapped children might be expected to show evidence of the same ability . |
11 | So Nucella lamellosa might be expected to select B. glandula in preference to M. edulis on the shore . |
12 | For the literate group of women who might be expected to read magazines , this was in fact a transitional period : freed to a greater extent than ever before from the shadow of death , this was not yet the time of the educated lay interest in infant psychology which was soon to be aroused by Montessori , Froebel , Susan Isaacs and the Freudians generally ; nor had the hygienist movement yet got under way . |
13 | For a DTP exercise students might be expected to make use of style sheets rather than hard-wire formats into a document . |
14 | Finally , it should be noted that while a system of guide-lines might be expected to reduce disparity in sentencing , there is no guarantee that it would reduce the overall level of punitiveness . |
15 | Another element that might be expected to influence location of economic activity will be the extent of differentials in factor costs . |
16 | By example , source nodes that are siblings to Microtext and Macrotext might be expected to have target nodes with suffixes including ‘ history ’ , ‘ principles ’ , and ‘ systems ’ , and exactly this happened . |
17 | This explains the welcome given to any cultural syntheses which might be expected to renew belief in the uniform spiritual essence both of English literature and of the discipline itself . |
18 | The move affected several thousand former members of parliament and public officials , many of whom could be expected to take part in the presidential and legislative elections in 1992 . |
19 | Previously , after six weeks the students would teach one ( heavily prepared ) lesson ; now , in theory , at least , they could be expected to take responsibility for a class for six or seven weeks . |
20 | Nevertheless , the fortress of autocracy had been breached and liberal pressure for further reform could be expected to gather momentum . |
21 | Montrose 's formulation is rhetorically neat but its application could be expected to produce results which are conflicting and disruptive . |
22 | The PLO on June 11 described the government as a " war Cabinet " , which could be expected to increase repression against the Palestinians . |
23 | It was the Jewish people who first conceived of a single God , who was all-powerful and , in return for worship and obedience , could be expected to reward virtue and punish vice . |
24 | ‘ Venables laughed and said that the deal was worth over £4m to Lineker but no one could be expected to believe Tottenham would get more than £1m . |
25 | Competition and selection may be expected to yield traits that maximize rapid and early reproduction and the production of the largest possible brood or litter . |
26 | Those who see the former as an end in itself … insofar as they comprise the present leadership of the NICRA … may be expected to lose interest as rights are gained . |
27 | ‘ Risk assessment on behalf of the client may be expected to demonstrate management capabilities and awareness of weakness or exposure . |
28 | Academic libraries may be expected to contain collections of research papers but too often one has to go to public libraries to find valuable collections of records and documents of local interest . |
29 | Smoking and drug histories were taken although no patient was receiving any treatment that would be expected to give rise to DNA damage . |
30 | A human being , situated as was the horse , would be expected to give reasons for its refusal to walk to the trough ( I 'm tired , not thirsty ) . |