Example sentences of "[pron] might expect [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , he berates her and describes the misery she might expect as a beggar . |
| 2 | And I have a very strong extended family as you might expect of a half Italian , mother always cooking pasta and what have you at home . |
| 3 | AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most . |
| 4 | ‘ Not perhaps the normal taste you might expect from a crew member . ’ |
| 5 | As you might expect from an investment plan that offers tax-free returns , there is a limit to the amount you are allowed to invest each year . |
| 6 | It wanted to be seen as an honorary member of the developed world experiencing the sort of hard times you might expect in a country with the world 's biggest foreign debt , $115 billion . |
| 7 | Spreadsheets are also borrowing features from other categories of package , such as Excel 's multi-language spellchecker and thesaurus , which you might expect in a word processor but will be pleasantly surprised to find in a spreadsheet . |
| 8 | The other tracts which were written by Lothar before he became pope show a pastoral concern , an interest in almsgiving , in sin , in penance , in the sacrament of marriage and in the priestly office ( " De sacro altaris mysterio " ) : perhaps what one might expect of a Paris theologian of this period . |
| 9 | This is a road of great promise , as one might expect of a highway that is paved almost all the way from Barrow in Alaska to Ushuaia in Argentina , and is — at 16,000 miles — the longest continuous route in the world . |
| 10 | The business is not doing well though sales are good — higher than one might expect in a town of this size and against significant competition — ’ |
| 11 | The range of natural environments contained within Yugoslavia itself is far greater than one might expect in an area only 5 per cent larger than the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | His attitude to England seems terribly confused , as one might expect from a person who despises royalty but brandishes the cross of St George . |
| 13 | This was written late in his life and with his own declared interest in socialism and sociology there is a tendency to see things rather more ‘ socially ’ than one might expect from a child of the local corner shop . |
| 14 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 15 | A push button switches in the amp 's ‘ Enhance ’ circuitry , the effect of which is to condition the high order harmonics of the distorted sound , reputedly offering a less ‘ fizzy ’ tone than one might expect from a transistor amp . |
| 16 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 17 | The history of science is full of priority-disputes , mistakes and dogmatism , as one might expect from a human and provisional activity . |
| 18 | What I am talking of is , I suppose , the sort of progeny one might expect from a mating between the Arkleton Trust and the government-sponsored Plockton seminar |
| 19 | But then came a row with the aged President Tito over the sort of reception he might expect on a visit to Belgrade . |