Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where management rewards in publicly owned concerns are institutionally determined , we should expect such concerns to perform less well than privately owned firms in which salaries relate to performance . |
| 2 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 3 | If genes could discover a chink of an unorthodox route through to another body ( alongside , or instead of , the orthodox sperm or egg route ) , we must expect natural selection to favour their opportunism and improve it . |
| 4 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 5 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 6 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 7 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 8 | Having seen that there is an a priori case for some governmental interference , we will pass on in chapter 3 to applications of the theory of the firm to regulated situations — how we might expect such firms to behave . |
| 9 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 10 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 11 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 12 | If , however , the vertical axis is defined as attainable competitive strength , then one might expect most investment to take place in the top left corner . |
| 13 | We therefore might expect cultural changes to have greatly outstripped our slowly changing evolutionary heritage , in which case our present behaviour should be attributed more to the process of cultural , than of genetical , evolution . |
| 14 | Normally we 'd expect these buoys to move west in the south equatorial current under the influence of the south easterly trade winds but during alminio winds become weak and westerly and buoys putting off the coast of Peru seemed to wander about aimlessly . |
| 15 | One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem . |
| 16 | If interest is earned in a separate account from the cheque account I would expect automatic transfers to keep the cheque account at an agreed limit . |
| 17 | We would expect temporary workers employed on open-ended contracts to do so as well . |
| 18 | Similarly , if score A has a positive Z score then we would expect variable B to have a variable Z score . |
| 19 | Williams , who saw his initial Derby prospect , Pond Tornado , eliminated , said : ‘ I would expect New Level to win his heat but Pond Pavarotti is on a wing and a prayer . |
| 20 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 21 | Now we would expect that justification to emerge from this examination and in due course to be embodied in the er lower case script for the alteration itself . |
| 22 | Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved . |
| 23 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
| 24 | One would expect some cases to get widespread coverage , especially when there is serious re-offending after a previous life sentence . |
| 25 | Certainly this policy is not intended in any way to erm prevent what P P G seven actually seeks er to promote in in the open countryside , ie outside the areas which we would expect most development to take place in . |
| 26 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 27 | Of course , you get what you pay for , and no-one in his right mind would expect this garment to wear or wash as long , or as well as , a fleece jacket of double the price . |
| 28 | He would expect older children to master basic harmony — ‘ grammar and syntax , we can not communicate sensibly without . |
| 29 | It is generally assumed that ‘ control ’ is a desirable feature and therefore has an additional premium value , ie purchasers will pay extra to acquire control and vendors will expect extra money to relinquish control . |
| 30 | We can expect such systems to show varying degrees of ability to acclimatize . |