Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams , who saw his initial Derby prospect , Pond Tornado , eliminated , said : ‘ I would expect New Level to win his heat but Pond Pavarotti is on a wing and a prayer . |
| 2 | If interest is earned in a separate account from the cheque account I would expect automatic transfers to keep the cheque account at an agreed limit . |
| 3 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 4 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 5 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 6 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 7 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 8 | Where management rewards in publicly owned concerns are institutionally determined , we should expect such concerns to perform less well than privately owned firms in which salaries relate to performance . |
| 9 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 10 | If genes could discover a chink of an unorthodox route through to another body ( alongside , or instead of , the orthodox sperm or egg route ) , we must expect natural selection to favour their opportunism and improve it . |
| 11 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 12 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 13 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 14 | If , however , the vertical axis is defined as attainable competitive strength , then one might expect most investment to take place in the top left corner . |
| 15 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 16 | Having seen that there is an a priori case for some governmental interference , we will pass on in chapter 3 to applications of the theory of the firm to regulated situations — how we might expect such firms to behave . |
| 17 | Normally we 'd expect these buoys to move west in the south equatorial current under the influence of the south easterly trade winds but during alminio winds become weak and westerly and buoys putting off the coast of Peru seemed to wander about aimlessly . |
| 18 | Now we would expect that justification to emerge from this examination and in due course to be embodied in the er lower case script for the alteration itself . |
| 19 | We would expect temporary workers employed on open-ended contracts to do so as well . |
| 20 | Similarly , if score A has a positive Z score then we would expect variable B to have a variable Z score . |
| 21 | Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved . |
| 22 | Certainly this policy is not intended in any way to erm prevent what P P G seven actually seeks er to promote in in the open countryside , ie outside the areas which we would expect most development to take place in . |
| 23 | One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem . |
| 24 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 25 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
| 26 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 27 | One would expect some cases to get widespread coverage , especially when there is serious re-offending after a previous life sentence . |
| 28 | We can expect such systems to show varying degrees of ability to acclimatize . |
| 29 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
| 30 | He would expect older children to master basic harmony — ‘ grammar and syntax , we can not communicate sensibly without . |