Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] expect [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It does n't have error correction or data compression and for £249 , I 'd expect these features to be standard . |
2 | Hello darling , come on I said to her when she goes back to Tumbletots I shall expect big things of her . |
3 | Therefore the chances are , and this is statistical , it 's a statistical chance , in general I can expect any mutation in me to be passed on to half my offspring complete . |
4 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
5 | Though you might expect some echoes of a Telecaster or a Les Paul Junior , it actually sounds like neither . |
6 | As you 'd expect strong traces of the surging Pixies sound remain , but they 're delivered with a more melodic , playful edge , almost as if splitting up the band has allowed the real Black to emerge . |
7 | Coming from the lead guitarist in a band who 've only just released their second single , you 'd expect such remarks to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt . |
8 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
9 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
10 | In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears . |
11 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
12 | In general , if one individual is able to make its future actions plainer than another and if it derives benefit from doing so ( which does not seem implausible in a social context ) , then we should expect evolutionary change in the effectiveness of such signals . |
13 | The evidence presented in Tables 9.3 and 9.4 lends weight to the statement that being less risky we should expect less return from fixed interest investments whichever country is being considered . |
14 | c ) Since our view of the language will change profoundly , we must expect substantial influence on the specification of syllabuses , design of materials and choice of method . |
15 | They are so frequent these days in London , which has eight of 20 First Division clubs , that we must expect aesthetic considerations to be overridden . |
16 | Accepting even a weak Whorfian view that language used influences thought and representation to some degree , then one might expect great differences in the way that deaf people structure information . |
17 | Because three-quarters of women with gonorrhoea will have the infection in the urethra , one might expect urethral discharge to be a common finding in infected women . |
18 | While one might expect eventual decisions to be made purely on the merits of the case , earlier evidence indicates that some objections are more likely to succeed in influencing decision-makers than others . |
19 | Where both husband and wife have substantial commitments to the job world , one might expect domestic responsibilities to be shared . |
20 | With such differences in the quantity and quality of mosaics one might expect different levels of stylistic affinity — and combinations of these levels — to be prominent . |
21 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
22 | Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive . |
23 | Thus , using a plural in a continuation based on the verb + with conditions , where we might expect some sort of strain , does indeed produce a reliably higher number of continuations using both . |
24 | Not surprisingly these features are principally confined to the cities of the province , though we might expect some form of provision at those sites where water transport clearly played a part in moving bulky products like building stone or pottery ( p. 43 ) . |
25 | The net effect will vary according to the cost conditions within the particular industry under consideration , and within the real world we might expect considerable variation from one industry to another . |
26 | If this is true we might expect paired males to be more vigilant than bachelor males . |
27 | Clearly , we could expect some sort of boundary indication , such as a pause , to occur long before the end of this utterance . |
28 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
29 | In drawing these three threads together , it is fair to say that if , as we have shown , the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus , we shall expect similar marks in the Church of our age and every age as the Spirit displayed in the life of our Lord . |
30 | From what we know about their audience and their content , we would expect major differences between the influence of television and the influence of the press , and major differences also between the influence of highbrow and lowbrow sources . |