Example sentences of "one would expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theoretically , one would expect the Northern catholic community and the six counties of Ulster to be considered a lost remnant , unredeemed from British rule , and indeed this is by far the most popular interpretation . |
| 2 | The books — almost as much a symbol of Jewishness as the Mogen David itself — are by and large well thumbed , though fewer than one would expect . |
| 3 | It is , cynics might say , exactly the conclusion one would expect from scientists in the pay of the CEGB . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Instead , the times when one would expect the ultradian rhythm to produce a burst of activity or feeding drop out . |
| 6 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |
| 7 | Even those one would expect to have rejoiced at the religious revival which Lewis 's popularity heralded and to a certain degree inspired could only bring themselves to sneer . |
| 8 | Aged 34 , Mr Gates is bright , opinionated , decisive and every bit as sure of himself as one would expect from a man who was a billionaire by the age of 30 . |
| 9 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 10 | In the South-East , as one would expect , the South Downs mines supplied the raw material for more than half the axeheads analysed from that region . |
| 11 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 12 | If the secularisation of the working-class had gone ahead as rapidly as Engels wished to believe , one would expect to see some reflection of this in figures showing the growth of Rationalist and Secularist Societies . |
| 13 | This is precisely the sort of position one would expect given the combination of their respectable backgrounds , in almost all cases their membership of the Free Presbyterian Church , and their belief that the appeasement policies of the government and the Chief Constable have to be opposed publicly . |
| 14 | If only ten per cent or less of the Protestant population were engaged in farming , one would expect the DUP to reduce its interest in farmers . |
| 15 | Given the Free Presbyterian Church 's high political profile one would expect that many of its ministers would be active in the Orange Lodge , Black Preceptory , and Apprentice Boys . |
| 16 | This is not the sort of complaint one would expect after years in which Downing Street was running riot by appointing one maverick after another . |
| 17 | As one would expect , the reaction is in some ways likely to be the opposite of what we have just described . |
| 18 | As one would expect , the control of a system as complex as that portrayed in a metabolic chart requires a large number of switches , of several different kinds . |
| 19 | He had neither French nor German nor English , as one would expect . |
| 20 | If the meticulous Davis was the last player one would expect to lose in such a manner , the six-times Masters champion retained his reputation for sportsmanship by the grace with which he accepted the verdict . |
| 21 | But Voyager is more than just a pretty face ; one would expect no less from Volker Schlondorff . |
| 22 | Generally , then , one would expect to find reciprocation in populations of highly social animals living in small intensely interactive groups . |
| 23 | Like the pelagic trilobites , individual graptoloid species are very widespread , which is what one would expect of an animal with the wide ocean as its habitat . |
| 24 | Evidence from the Home Office consultant pathologist , Professor Alan Usher , discovered no abnormality except pneumonia due to lung statis ; ‘ exactly what one would expect in poisoning by a respiratory depressant drug . ’ |
| 25 | Prior to the AGM a postal ballot had voted against the resolution by approximately 46,000 to 29,000votes — a much larger proportion than one would expect . |
| 26 | One would expect this to occur most readily when the anode and cathode spacing was small . |
| 27 | As one would expect , there is a clear relationship between commissions and the value ( in real terms ) of orders received by contractors for building . |
| 28 | In view of this , one would expect the breed to have firmly established itself long ago . |
| 29 | Their search led , by the middle of the 1940s , to a compound , 2:6-diaminopurine , which had effects in mammals and chicks ‘ about what one would expect of a substance which interferes with nucleic acid metabolism in some way ’ . |
| 30 | This is not something one would expect in a normal shop . |