Example sentences of "we may expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we may expect , know or not know about our audience can present other dimensions of difficulty and challenge . |
| 2 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 3 | we may expect continuations to have to do with plumbing , in which the plumber is offering advice to Mary , and so they are playing different roles . |
| 4 | If the site is a warehouse , we may expect , whereas if the site is a shop , we may have and there may be intermediate sites at which no stocks are held or required , so that . |
| 5 | We may expect to generate a better estimate by using pseudo-costs . |
| 6 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 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 | In a field that is patchy in space and time , be it ever so small , we may expect that the populations of a species such as white clover will , at any time , reflect selective forces from its past . |
| 9 | Similarly , when the functions of institutions alter radically we may expect to see corresponding structural changes . |
| 10 | We may expect , to some degree , a hero ( or , more rarely , a heroine ) of more than ordinary stature . |
| 11 | It is to be suspected that , together with its extensions , it constitutes the nuclear complex of every neurosis , and we may expect to find it actively at work in other regions of mental life . |
| 12 | Suppose we wish to put a straight line unc through the following set of experimental points : unc Suppose further that , in view of the experimental method , we may expect errors in f to be proportional to t . |
| 13 | To the extent that these close-knit social relations are weakened , we may expect that these linguistic complexities will be reduced . |
| 14 | We may expect that in any event the common law principles of compulsion , and indeed of mistake , will continue to develop in the future . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 17 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 18 | Perhaps , as with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , this is where we may expect the next rifting , though I doubt if it will happen soon enough to substantiate my idea . |
| 19 | When these anxieties are ministered to by the products of the instant government under which we now with remarkable acquiescence subsist and are abetted by draftsmanship of the esoteric kind sometimes adopted by our professional brothers south of the border , we may expect to be confronted by problems of dimensions quite disparate to the simple issues which are essentially involved . |
| 20 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 21 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 22 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Given that it seems clear that we may expect students who are well qualified in traditional terms to achieve relatively high levels of academic achievement , an important measure of success may be the extent to which institutions are able to take students who are not well qualified traditionally and achieve relatively high success rates with these students . |
| 25 | 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 . |