Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where management rewards in publicly owned concerns are institutionally determined , we should expect such concerns to perform less well than privately owned firms in which salaries relate to performance . |
| 2 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 3 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 4 | We therefore might expect cultural changes to have greatly outstripped our slowly changing evolutionary heritage , in which case our present behaviour should be attributed more to the process of cultural , than of genetical , evolution . |
| 5 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |