Example sentences of "would expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | So this is the kind of figure I 'd expect machines of this class to equal or better . |
2 | ‘ If I 'd got engaged to anybody else , any of these young girls you cite , they 'd expect things from me I 'm not prepared to give — ’ |
3 | At very high temperatures , particles would be moving around so fast that they could escape any attraction toward each other due to nuclear or electromagnetic forces , but as they cooled off one would expect particles that attract each other to start to clump together . |
4 | We would expect regulations to be drawn up under those headings in the hope that the privatised companies would be obliged to act upon them . |
5 | We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work . |
6 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
7 | Certainly one would expect judges to exhaust every resource available to them to avoid committing to prison ( in this instance for six years ) a person who has not had an answer to arguable grounds of appeal . |
8 | Mr Lyons said : ‘ We would expect talks with Neil Kinnock , John Smith and Gordon Brown to consider a framework within which manufacturing industry can thrive . |
9 | We would expect horses to be more comfortable with a horse that looked like itself because it would also be likely to look like its mother . |
10 | You move into the south which is the area where landlord exploitation might have been at its most intense , where you would expect antagonisms to be greatest , where one would expect that peasants would be actually demanding land reform and , and indeed if you , you go back to , to the you 've clearly got that almost spontaneous underlying radicalism because of the , the intense landlord exploitation . |
11 | If songs have been evolved by males because of competition for mates , one would expect males of polygamous species to have more complex songs than monogamous species . |
12 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
13 | Japanese firms have enjoyed faster growth than American ones , so , on this basis , you would expect dividends to be lower . |
14 | Zeus 's head is lost , but seems to have been turned to his proper right , and on this , the side of good omen , one would expect Pelops to stand , as he does in fig. 124 . |
15 | We would expect individuals to belong to more than one of these groups . |
16 | Where there is an increasing use of decentralised structures and accountability we would expect individuals lower down the organisation to take on more responsibility . |
17 | We would expect pupils to demonstrate their growing competence as both speakers and listeners by : |
18 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
19 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
20 | On a priori grounds we would expect humans to have an auditory area corresponding to temporal visual cortex since speech requires the categorical perception of sounds . |
21 | If this is a correct description of what is happening , we would expect speakers ' language behaviour to be characterised by : |
22 | The one organization which one would expect workers would see as being part of their own world ( one of the ‘ us ’ ) would be trade unions . |
23 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
24 | Since eating sugar will give the yeast a burst of growth and therefore precipitate symptoms such as bloating within a few hours , one would expect sufferers from candidiasis to be averse to sugar . |
25 | As the papacy 's powers increased so did the cardinals ' revenues , for they were involved in general administration and often legal duties and would expect gifts and payments for services . |
26 | The model used to allocate traffic between competing services is , however , very sensitive to relative prices , so , one would expect increases in Eurotunnel 's costs to give rise to a lower market share and hence to lower revenues . |
27 | It seems possible that people located hostility in groups because they knew that the others , their opponents , would expect reprisals from any members of the group they opposed . |