Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hm , I 'll expect the other friends will take something . |
| 2 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 3 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 4 | You can expect a few difficulties and the occasional setback . |
| 5 | You can expect a few aches tomorrow , as new exercises usually cause our muscles to respond 48 hours after we do them . |
| 6 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 7 | Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology . |
| 8 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 9 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
| 10 | On average , one would expect the faint sources to be the more distant ones . |
| 11 | Afterwards , when told he had best wait for his bodyguard , Caledor replied that he could expect no better bodyguards than these hunters , and asked them to accompany him on his quest to the shrine . |