Example sentences of "we might expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is the simple physical characteristics of a stimulus that play the key role in generalizations about behaviour , then we might expect to find patients who have lost the ability to lip-read and lost the ability to judge expression , but not patients who have lost only one of these two abilities while retaining the other . |
| 2 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 3 | Accordingly , the most instructive gloss on ‘ externality ’ is to be found where we might expect it , in Pound 's 1916 memoir of the sculptor , Gaudier-Brzeska , where he writes of Gaudier and Lewis and other ‘ vorticists ’ , painters , and sculptors : |
| 4 | If we read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ through with Tate 's commentary at our elbow , we see at any given point what he means : he has a good ear , as we might expect from his own poems ( which are however metrical , as ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ is n't ) . |
| 5 | Given that usefulness was rated on an eleven-point scale ( 0 to 10 ) we might expect that relatively few would rate television and the press exactly equal . |
| 6 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 7 | As we might expect , partisanship was a major influence upon image ratings . |
| 8 | As we might expect , partisanship was a major influence upon image ratings , and it became an increasingly powerful influence as the election approached . |
| 9 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |
| 10 | We might expect to find difficulty in relating , for example , the average length of prison sentences to the incidence of the crimes for which they are imposed ; but to be at a loss to trace any clear connection between the prospects of being executed for murder and the prevalence of the crime of murder is startling and impressive . |
| 11 | But The Waste Land 's sounds , rather than sights , come closest to enacting savage ritual , as we might expect of Eliot 's ‘ auditory imagination ’ . |
| 12 | But God then intervenes , not on the side of Hagar and Ishmael , as we might expect , but in support of Sarah . |
| 13 | It occupies a very prominent place in the narrative , therefore , and we might expect something particularly fine and solemn after the heroics of chapter 22 . |
| 14 | The wholly negative tone of the passage is only what we might expect from the rest of the chapter . |
| 15 | In the first chapter we looked at notions of timely and untimely grief and we saw that although the reaction to loss is the same whether or not we are expecting someone to die , the way it will be expressed does very much depend on whether it is something we might expect . |
| 16 | It adds up to just what we might expect , in fact , from a talented , energetic and fashionably leftish folk-rock group . |
| 17 | We might expect such a king to have been beatified upon his death ( his ancestor had been St Arnulf ) but Charles ' indifference to Christian morality prevented this . |
| 18 | Hunold was not executed , as we might expect , but returned to the obscurity of his monastic life . |
| 19 | * Comparing the scheme shown in fig. 5.11(b) with that of Fig. 5.11(a) , we might expect that the presence of the extra active a elements would produce more effective overshadowing of the c elements during training with A. Generalization to B would therefore be reduced . |
| 20 | If acquired distinctiveness depends on associative mechanisms , we might expect it to be attenuated or abolished by a change of context that renders these associations less effective . |
| 21 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 22 | However , as we might expect , the median smooth is more jagged than the mean smooth ( shown in figure 9.8 ) . |
| 23 | We can examine whether the Social Attitudes Survey in 1984 finds the same pattern ; we might expect , on the basis of this reasoning , that the more educated people would be less likely to say that they would break an unjust law . |
| 24 | The Saturday Review described the scheme as the ‘ sort of meagre and crude distribution of all the allotted space — and of a great deal more besides — into parallelograms , which we might expect from the speculative projector of Great Franklin Pierce City , Nebraska ’ . |
| 25 | As Foresman ( 1986 ) suggests , we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role . |
| 26 | Thus , using a plural in a continuation based on the verb + with conditions , where we might expect some sort of strain , does indeed produce a reliably higher number of continuations using both . |
| 27 | If true , we might expect male peeking rates to increase as the number of females in the flock increase . |
| 28 | If this is true we might expect paired males to be more vigilant than bachelor males . |
| 29 | To Sulentic 's surprise , he has also found that the connection can be traced right into the central nucleus of NGC 43 19 — very much as we might expect if , as Arp has often suggested , high redshift objects are somehow shot out from the centres of otherwise normal galaxies . |
| 30 | Labour is said to be in terminal decline because we have failed to identify , let alone appeal to , a natural constituency we might expect to provide us with majority support . |