Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of weeks ago , I might have expected the Tories to scrape through to election victory with such a Budget . |
| 2 | I would have expected a letter from him . |
| 3 | ‘ It was a disgusting and inexcusable act and I would have expected the sentence to reflect this , ’ said Gosport MP Peter Viggers . |
| 4 | ‘ But if one of our lads had done something similar , I would have expected the Manchester City players to respond in the same way . |
| 5 | I would have expected the DoH to present its own views on the legal use of restraint rather than allow regional variations to develop , ’ said Levy . |
| 6 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 7 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
| 8 | One might have expected the discipline most closely connected with the past to make a peculiarly important contribution to the development of the social sciences , but in fact history as an academic specialisation was of peculiarly little help to them . |
| 9 | It was the sort of time and place where one might have expected an idea , the spring of a poem to well up from the quiet and the beauty . |
| 10 | One might have expected an examination of the non-economic bases of liberal democracy or of bureaucracy in understanding the distinction between ‘ class power ’ and ‘ state power ’ , or ‘ the specificity of the political ’ ( Laclau , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | We would have expected the fraction to be approximately one-third , because Kleisthenes divided Attica into three , not four : city , coast and inland . |
| 12 | What is taxable is the benefit to the employee and one would have expected the quantum of that benefit to be assessed by reference to the value of the benefit to the employee . |
| 13 | Therefore one would have expected the proportion of severe pancreatitis to decrease . |
| 14 | There is no trace of a lease for the adjacent Coniston Manor at this period though one would have expected the Champions to have taken this " sett " if it had been available . |
| 15 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |
| 16 | ‘ one would have expected the ransom to have been paid . ’ |
| 17 | If they 'd played badly they might have expected a hiding . |
| 18 | But not even they could have expected the rigours of Wendover Woods next to RAF Halton . |
| 19 | They found the bridge , when they arrived there , to be all that they would have expected a bridge on such a yacht to be , with a plethora of expensive and largely unnecessary navigational aids , but in all respects perfectly innocuous . |
| 20 | Gabriel was galled with shame , though of course he could have expected the Devil to betray him . |