Example sentences of "[pron] might have expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of weeks ago , I might have expected the Tories to scrape through to election victory with such a Budget . |
| 2 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 3 | One might have expected the discipline most closely connected with the past to make a peculiarly important contribution to the development of the social sciences , but in fact history as an academic specialisation was of peculiarly little help to them . |
| 4 | It was the sort of time and place where one might have expected an idea , the spring of a poem to well up from the quiet and the beauty . |
| 5 | One might have expected an examination of the non-economic bases of liberal democracy or of bureaucracy in understanding the distinction between ‘ class power ’ and ‘ state power ’ , or ‘ the specificity of the political ’ ( Laclau , 1977 ) . |
| 6 | If they 'd played badly they might have expected a hiding . |