Example sentences of "[pron] would expect a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His terracotta-tiled house with salmon pink shutters is hardly the sort of place you would expect a wealthy actor to buy .
2 Therefore we would expect a forward contract and a financial futures contract with the same specifications to have the same price .
3 We would expect a Labour government to sweep away all those laws which conflict with the right to union recognition , which conflict with the social charter , and which conflict with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation , such as banning unions at GCHQ , Cheltenham , and banning collective pay bargaining for teachers . ’
4 If a child is exposed to two languages simultaneously , we would expect a single system at first which gradually becomes divided into two under the influence of linguistic input from two separate systems .
5 If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that .
6 What is reading ? — a simple question to which one would expect a simple answer .
7 Complete fluency in the first and second languages is taken as prerequisite for training ( and one would expect a working interpreter to command at least four or five languages ) .
8 I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme .
9 I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme .
10 one would expect a large variation in the fluency with which teachers can instruct in sign language ; many would have had no more than a relatively short course .
11 Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness .
12 From the marked rise in the electrical conductivity of these saturated carbon-bearing samples as temperature and pressure increase , one would expect a high sample conductivity under lower-crustal conditions .
13 In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed .
14 Using high copy number Long transgenics , one would expect a copy-dependent signal in the DNase I hypersensitivity assay .
15 Very well , no-one would expect a leading article in a newspaper — even a newspaper like this one which has , we hope , a reputation for behaving responsibly — to applaud plans to curb the freedom of the press .
16 Not only would their number have to be increased but they would also need to undergo years of specialized training for which they would expect a commensurate reward .
17 Using that as their base-line ( or why would they have contracted her ? ) they would expect a high performance in her theoretical IQ .
18 If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today
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