Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deeper purpose of his novels was no more than one must expect from any responsible man who draws on his experience and knowledge of the world for readers who will rightly expect both the general and the particular in the fiction . |
| 2 | As you might expect from such headlong cross-breeding and hybridizing in the incessant search for something different and new , the various types are so widely stretched that the edges tend to run into each other and merge , and the dividing line becomes ever more difficult to discern . |
| 3 | Oh the erm if there is a sort of major beneficiary that Carpet Right because of course we owned the in them fairly decent straight throughout Currys , Dixons and some of the market people Quicksave erm , the sort of spread you 'd expect on any retail park you know . |
| 4 | So our support has been subject to redefined guidelines , as you 'd expect from any efficient organisation . |
| 5 | And that 's a whole lot better than you could expect from any petrol-engined BMW in this bracket . |
| 6 | Er now I I would expect , I do n't know whether it 's worth talking about the general principle that we 're talking about different routes here and as i understand , the purpose today was to talk about the need for relief roads and I would expect at some future date , at a public enquiry when er I 'm defending er the outer blue er the outer northern route , to defend why that was chosen as opposed to an inner northern route and not rely upon the key diagram in the structure plan and the stars that are shown on there . |
| 7 | Kempe conducts a performance as vigorous and taut as one would expect from that still-lamented figure ; the recording is adequate , without being brilliant . |
| 8 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 9 | Easy to use with the aid of a pull down menu , it offers facilities you would expect in any other drawing package such as the drawing of circles , boxes , lines and curves etc. with various fill patterns . |
| 10 | This will give some intuitive idea of the amount of change that we can expect in real natural evolution . |