Example sentences of "[pron] would expect of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you would expect of a gas cooker with such an advanced hotplate , the controls of the new Discovery are equally sophisticated . |
| 2 | Schmeichel , 27 , is everything you would expect of a Dane . |
| 3 | Both coastal and inland clubs offer dinghy parking areas , changing room , safety boat cover and the facilities you would expect of a club house , including catering and a bar . |
| 4 | ‘ The corrosion rate is not out of line with what you would expect of a steel hull lying in quiet sea water , ’ claimed John Bernie , head of the National Physical Laboratory 's National Corrosion Service . |
| 5 | Their search led , by the middle of the 1940s , to a compound , 2:6-diaminopurine , which had effects in mammals and chicks ‘ about what one would expect of a substance which interferes with nucleic acid metabolism in some way ’ . |
| 6 | Accordingly , the rate of turnover of a portfolio investing significantly in futures may quite legitimately be much higher than one would expect of a portfolio investing solely in stocks and shares . |
| 7 | Like the pelagic trilobites , individual graptoloid species are very widespread , which is what one would expect of an animal with the wide ocean as its habitat . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's precisely what anyone would expect of a drop-out Phys Ed basketball-playing retard , ’ Ellen said scornfully , ‘ by which I mean that he 's a jock with the brains of a dung beetle . |