Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] expect [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody should expect this sleeping dog to lie . |
| 2 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
| 3 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
| 4 | If ideology reflects economic organization , then one might expect that modern consciousness should contain its universalistic and its particularistic common-places . |
| 5 | We might expect that aggressive fighting would be common in nature , because natural selection will favour the most successful animals in competition , and the strongest animals are probably the most successful in fights . |
| 6 | If we accept the ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ argument derived from the work of Kerr and Siegel ( see above , p. 108 ) , then we would expect all isolated mining communities to be equally strike-prone . |
| 7 | One would expect this large amount of positive feed-back to lead to instability : as soon as the input is strong enough to excite one or two neurons , one would expect these to feed back on to others and initiate an explosive chain reaction . |
| 8 | It seems we can expect yet-another Intel-based desktop operating system to make an appearance this summer . |
| 9 | Cloud amounts will vary but we can expect some warm sunshine . |