Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get the whole story , though , you need to raise the bonnet because there , nestling in the space where you might expect to find a nice , sensible Marks & Spencer diesel , there is a 4.3 litre V6 motor , which , for good measure , is turbocharged and intercooled . |
| 2 | A 400-year-old school for boys in Shrewsbury is hardly the place you might expect to find a true example of hi-tech living . |
| 3 | If you learned to fly on an American machine , you will expect to apply a little left foot as you raise the collective and increase the power . |
| 4 | You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school . |
| 5 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
| 6 | We may expect to generate a better estimate by using pseudo-costs . |
| 7 | ‘ Leicester is a city in which we should expect to have a good general bookshop , and we shall be looking for a bigger and better site in the city . ’ |
| 8 | This practice was only varied if there was some known defect in the title , and if that was so , one could expect to find a special condition on the contract , indicating that the buyer would take the title as it stood , and would not raise requisitions after contracts were exchanged . |
| 9 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 10 | This comparative static result suggests that in empirical work we would expect to observe a positive correlation between alternative wages or unemployment benefits , and union wages and membership , but also possibly a sharp discontinuity in this relationship . |
| 11 | They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term . |
| 12 | Students may then be asked in what physical form and in what situation they would expect to find a given piece of discourse . |
| 13 | It could expect to defeat a lesser power like Argentina , but taking on Communist China was unthinkable . |