Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I may expect no mass media to crusade , no millions of strangers to become suddenly familiar with my name and anxious for my cause .
2 Hm , I 'll expect the other friends will take something .
3 They were sure I could expect a large present from her , either before or after her death .
4 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 . ’
5 I would expect the American people would also react very favourably to it . ’
6 I 'd have thought an organisation like Amnesty would be in the forefront of anti-sexism , but I 've come across sexism before where I would expect an enlightened attitude ( eg Greenpeace )
7 Important or insignificant , customs appointments were , however , obtainable only by those who could expect a political favour , and many of the officers were in fact the nominees of a member of parliament and often the active partisans of that politician .
8 Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card .
9 ‘ With most criminal kidnaps you could expect a long wait .
10 His terracotta-tiled house with salmon pink shutters is hardly the sort of place you would expect a wealthy actor to buy .
11 Just as you would expect the fabulous Theme Park combined America 's colourful past , present and future in one glorious location , and those same world famous attractions you can see in California and Florida — MAIN STREET USA , FRONTIERLAND , ADVENTURELAND , FANTASYLAND , DISCOVERYLAND — will all be lovingly re-created right here in Europe .
12 Of course , you would expect the native breed i.e. Exmoor and they are registered by the Exmoor Pony Society ( address from editor , ‘ Today 's Horse ’ ) .
13 As you would expect the high level of vitality in children means they respond quickly and they generally wo n't need as many doses of the remedy .
14 If brought to trial , she can expect a long prison sentence , followed by ‘ re-education through labour ’ in a camp in Qinghai — ‘ China 's Siberia ’ — an Area like the Sahara desert , in the west of the country , where the climate is notorious for its boiling heat in summer and freezing temperatures in winter .
15 If you go to a fancy-dress party as a Turkish dancer , you can expect a good time ; if you travel on public transport late at night in such a get-up it will probably cause nothing but trouble .
16 There 's a weekly farewell dinner and you can expect a welcoming drink on arrival .
17 So you can expect the geometric pattern lounge carpet to look sharp in years to come .
18 Realistically we should expect a mixed experience as at the start of all major new programmes .
19 In view of the potential benefits to be gained by local communities from providing food and accommodation and other requirements , one might expect every small town and village throughout rural Scotland to be demanding a long-distance recreational route on their doorstep .
20 Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions .
21 He says , One might expect a big man to have big bottles , but if you are giving a big dinner party its very practical to have magnums .
22 As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed .
23 Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR .
24 Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs .
25 In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) .
26 Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either .
27 Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself .
28 We might expect a clear relationship , for example , between the number of school children and the amount of spending on education .
29 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 .
30 Alternatively , we might expect the predation- pattern to show a form of apostatic selection ( Clarke , 1962 ) : the dog-whelks choosing the most frequently encountered of the potential prey species .
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