Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In one way I would n't expect to find any witnesses — since what happened took place close to dawn .
2 Now , because of the seasonal variation , it can provide a lot of your hot water in the summer , but not very much in the winter and over a year , with a rooftop solar panel installation , you could perhaps expect to heat half your hot water by solar energy .
3 You can also expect to see true multi-tasking and use of the faster 386 instruction set .
4 However , in a semi-strong efficient market as the International Stock Exchange in London we should not expect to find any evidence for P/E ratio being a reliable predictor of returns or volatility of returns .
5 In these areas we should not expect to find deserted , shrunken or moved villages , but the equivalent for hamlets and farms , and this is indeed the case with hundreds of such sites identified on Dartmoor and in west Somerset , for example ; this will be discussed further in Chapter 7 .
6 We might therefore expect to find two local modes of rather similar frequency .
7 We might indeed expect to find several new layers of structure more basic than the quarks and electrons that we now regard as ‘ elementary ’ particles .
8 However , if your claim is successful , and damages are paid by the Defendants , we would normally expect to recover all or most of our costs and disbursements from them .
9 The implications of this for employment are that we would still expect to see large-scale manufacturing in developed countries , absorbing substantial amounts of labour ( though this labour would be involved in knowledge work rather than metal-bashing ) ; and we would expect to see more labour employed again in small firms producing semi-custom-made products or services using machinery produced by the large companies .
10 The figures ' significance may , of course , be challenged on the grounds that the number of turns taken by Anderson in the last six scenes , and the length of those turns , is considerably smaller than in the earlier scenes , and we would therefore expect to see fewer performance errors .
11 Where one would normally expect to find those details , there is the logo of the Sports Council , and the statement : ’ Additional copies of Relay available from Sports Council International Affairs Unit . ’
12 If this were the case one would also expect to find increased basal secretion in smokers — in our study this was not the case .
13 For his more recent view suggests that we can not expect to gain untainted ‘ knowledge ’ of ourselves and our relation to social practices , so that the claim that individuals are not subjects must be assessed , like its competitors , by appeal to various kinds of criteria .
14 Clearly , because of the elusive nature of neutrinos we can not expect to capture all of them .
15 The 1991 results are likely to be poor but , as the dominant UK credit insurer operating in the longest and deepest recession for many years , one can hardly expect to see good figures .
16 One great comber filled the canoe before she shook free from the cascading crests ; now they could not expect to make much headway and had to fight even harder to avoid broaching-to .
17 Even with the optimism of the participants they could not expect to solve such a problem in four days .
18 Most of them were used to paying regular visits to the friendly neighbourhood pawnbroker , but on the objects they brought to him they could not expect to raise any great sums .
19 The judge said he would never expect to see another crime like it .
20 A good time was had by all and who knows , next year the theme could be Television Adverts , when he will surely expect to get first prize as the TV Captain Chaos look alike .
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