Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] expect [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may also expect more love and support than of late . |
| 2 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 3 | We might then expect that final rather than initial position in the clause is where prominence can be achieved . |
| 4 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 5 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |
| 6 | ‘ Then he 'll surely expect some sort of explanation from me , ’ Harry said quietly . |
| 7 | If he condemns people who are outperforming his members , he can hardly expect much respect for their standards . |