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 . |