Example sentences of "may expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been nurtured in this way and observed adult males receiving the same treatment , boys may expect similar preferential treatment and where it is not offered automatically , demand it as a right . |
| 2 | Generally , one may expect that , for a combination of gravitational and electromagnetic waves , a curvature singularity in region IV will usually occur . |
| 3 | Right , and we may , we may expect that to be the case , you know , clothes do n't have , textiles do n't have many substitutes . |
| 4 | There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) . |
| 5 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 6 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |