Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] expect [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either . |
| 2 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 3 | To the watching girl it became increasingly obvious that she could expect no more help . |
| 4 | In the same way that one would expect the British Medical Association to be called upon to comment on any issue of human rights , we should come to expect the Library Association , along with other organizations such as Article 19 to be called to comment on any issue of censorship , and not just in the literary context . |
| 5 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 6 | However , she warned , " the fact that we are entering the path of economic development does not mean that we can expect a quick jump in living standards " . |
| 7 | Notice in particular that we have not used , anywhere in our analysis , the " shape " of the tubes T and S , so we can expect a similar analysis to hold for all homoclinic orbits to the origin which occur in the Lorenz equations . |
| 8 | Afterwards , when told he had best wait for his bodyguard , Caledor replied that he could expect no better bodyguards than these hunters , and asked them to accompany him on his quest to the shrine . |
| 9 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 10 | There 's a weekly farewell dinner and you can expect a welcoming drink on arrival . |
| 11 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 12 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |
| 13 | Happily , our foetuses are small , and we can expect a standard termination . |
| 14 | Seek not after new light for the searching into the private records of God … the event is registered in heaven , and we can expect no other certain notice of it , but that it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared by the Father of mercies . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | This may not be covered in the initial simple descriptions of the portfolio grids , but one would expect the underlying risk analysis to include such matters . |
| 18 | He consulted diviners when Anne Boleyn became pregnant , anxious to know whether he could expect a male heir . |
| 19 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 20 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 21 | Just as you would expect the fabulous Theme Park combined America 's colourful past , present and future in one glorious location , and those same world famous attractions you can see in California and Florida — MAIN STREET USA , FRONTIERLAND , ADVENTURELAND , FANTASYLAND , DISCOVERYLAND — will all be lovingly re-created right here in Europe . |
| 22 | As you would expect the high level of vitality in children means they respond quickly and they generally wo n't need as many doses of the remedy . |
| 23 | Fewer patients were referred from peripheral hospitals in the region , even though one would expect the many peripheral hospitals jointly to have seen as many patients with similar problems as the fewer large central district general hospitals . |