Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [vb infin] expect [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have expected no less of you , Alice . |
| 2 | I think you 'll have to expect the worst . ’ |
| 3 | One might have expected a sadistic Nightmare On Elm Street lyric to emerge from such interests , but instead he wrote the wonderfully moving ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ and later made a point of condemning Myra Hindley . |
| 4 | Moreover , the new credits entailed a transfer from husbands to wives or , as the issue came to be known , from ‘ wallet to purse ’ , and hence one might have expected the male-dominated TUC to be opposed to them . |
| 5 | This appears to be the case even in youth subcultures where one might have expected the greatest changes . |
| 6 | The concept of education vouchers fits remarkably well into the Tory programme of privatisation' of the social services and one might have expected the Conservative Party to move quickly towards a practical scheme of education vouchers … |
| 7 | One might have expected the intense difficulties confronting British film producers to stimulate discussion ; instead it seems to have narrowed their perspective . |
| 8 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 9 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 10 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 11 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
| 12 | He could have expected a weekly salary approaching £10,000 , plus all the other expensive trimmings , if he had become Britain 's most expensive ever midfield player . |
| 13 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |