Example sentences of "[pron] might expect [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In view of the potential benefits to be gained by local communities from providing food and accommodation and other requirements , one might expect every small town and village throughout rural Scotland to be demanding a long-distance recreational route on their doorstep .
2 Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions .
3 He says , One might expect a big man to have big bottles , but if you are giving a big dinner party its very practical to have magnums .
4 As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed .
5 Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR .
6 Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs .
7 In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) .
8 Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either .
9 Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself .
10 We might expect a clear relationship , for example , between the number of school children and the amount of spending on education .
11 Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution .
12 Alternatively , we might expect the predation- pattern to show a form of apostatic selection ( Clarke , 1962 ) : the dog-whelks choosing the most frequently encountered of the potential prey species .
13 If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future .
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