Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Clinton can not get the economy started and has trouble financing his ambitious spending programme , you may expect a greater withdrawal from foreign commitments , trade sanctions — whatever he thinks it will take , ’ said one analyst . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , one may expect a greater similarity between two geometrically similar points than between two geometrically dissimilar points . |
| 3 | Hence , given that they are held to bear less risk , we should expect a lower return . |
| 4 | One would expect the older Wordsworth to trot out the arguments of the Established Church at this point : instead he says he does |
| 5 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 6 | Mariot capped this by suggesting that , since the Earl Patrick would presumably intend to yield that castle should Berwick town fall to King Edward , he could expect a greater reward from that monarch if the castle was nominally his own , not just a crown possession . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |