Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Williams , who saw his initial Derby prospect , Pond Tornado , eliminated , said : ‘ I would expect New Level to win his heat but Pond Pavarotti is on a wing and a prayer . |
2 | If interest is earned in a separate account from the cheque account I would expect automatic transfers to keep the cheque account at an agreed limit . |
3 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
4 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
5 | If genes could discover a chink of an unorthodox route through to another body ( alongside , or instead of , the orthodox sperm or egg route ) , we must expect natural selection to favour their opportunism and improve it . |
6 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
7 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
8 | Similarly , if score A has a positive Z score then we would expect variable B to have a variable Z score . |
9 | Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved . |
10 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
11 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
12 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
13 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |