Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Nobody should expect this sleeping dog to lie . |
2 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
3 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
4 | In a normal year ( that is , not a boom year or a slump year ) , we should expect aggregate transitory income to be zero , so that aggregate measured and permanent incomes would be equal . |
5 | If ideology reflects economic organization , then one might expect that modern consciousness should contain its universalistic and its particularistic common-places . |
6 | We might expect that aggressive fighting would be common in nature , because natural selection will favour the most successful animals in competition , and the strongest animals are probably the most successful in fights . |
7 | If we accept the ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ argument derived from the work of Kerr and Siegel ( see above , p. 108 ) , then we would expect all isolated mining communities to be equally strike-prone . |
8 | One would expect this large amount of positive feed-back to lead to instability : as soon as the input is strong enough to excite one or two neurons , one would expect these to feed back on to others and initiate an explosive chain reaction . |
9 | It seems we can expect yet-another Intel-based desktop operating system to make an appearance this summer . |
10 | Cloud amounts will vary but we can expect some warm sunshine . |