Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example whatever the nature of the case be it acute or chronic I would expect to see some signs of improvement indicating a curative response within a very short while . |
| 2 | So as I say I would expect to see these percentages significantly increased erm . |
| 3 | Few people write a first draft perfectly and you should expect to complete several revisions . |
| 4 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |
| 5 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
| 6 | Time is money , and one must expect to see more pressure being brought to bear to reduce to a minimum the time taken from the start of a project to the arrival of the product on the shelves . |
| 7 | If what Jespersen suggests were true , however , one might expect to show some tendency to be dropped in the uses where it is " meaningless " and there is no sign of this occurring in any of the functions listed either by Buyssens or by Jespersen . |
| 8 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 9 | The implications of this for employment are that we would still expect to see large-scale manufacturing in developed countries , absorbing substantial amounts of labour ( though this labour would be involved in knowledge work rather than metal-bashing ) ; and we would expect to see more labour employed again in small firms producing semi-custom-made products or services using machinery produced by the large companies . |
| 10 | ‘ And while we would expect to win that game at home , I 'm under no illusions . |
| 11 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 12 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
| 13 | If the secularisation of the working-class had gone ahead as rapidly as Engels wished to believe , one would expect to see some reflection of this in figures showing the growth of Rationalist and Secularist Societies . |
| 14 | When the distribution of revenue is seen to be equitable , one would expect to see this intransigence diminish and with it doubts about the commitment of the UK to the EC . |
| 15 | One would expect to pass those kind of suburbs while lifting the eyes to what still lay in the centre , busy , well kept , and profitable . |
| 16 | In the future we can expect to see this technology integrated into the motherboard circuitry — initially for use in portable computers to reduce the unit weight and power requirements . |
| 17 | In our own case , if we can wash our face on our UK print run we can expect to make some profit from foreign licences . |
| 18 | Namely , wherever there is a difference in form , they should expect to find some difference in meaning . |
| 19 | Thus those who were in middle-class occupations will almost certainly enjoy larger pensions and more comfortable houses , and they can expect to suffer fewer disabilities , and live longer too . |