Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should also not rule out the possibility that one may properly look to a historical explanation , just as a historical explanation underlies the fact that the comparatives of tired and spoilt — derived from verbs — are analytic , as in : ( 56 ) Declan is more spoilt than Karen Declan 's mother is more tired than Karen 's mother rather than the synthetic forms — tireder , spoilter — which we should expect from the monosyllabic adjectives which they have become . |
| 2 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 3 | The Saturday Review described the scheme as the ‘ sort of meagre and crude distribution of all the allotted space — and of a great deal more besides — into parallelograms , which we might expect from the speculative projector of Great Franklin Pierce City , Nebraska ’ . |
| 4 | All spoke here of man 's work — his enterprise , his pleasure ; stately hotels vied with one another , handsome shops displayed in their windows all the luxuries one might expect in the great cities of the realm . |
| 5 | Jean would appreciate a note from you about what royalties she might expect in the near future , remembering she 's had a 500 advance . |
| 6 | Typical what you 'd expect from the Prime Minister . |
| 7 | Contributors invested in them as they would in any commercial building company and their philanthropy lay in accepting a return which , at 5 per cent , was lower than they would expect on the free market . |
| 8 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 9 | The movement in the direction along the grain of the wood is negligible , as one would expect from the molecular structure . |
| 10 | And , to make it all seem almost too good to be true the total number of possible W particles seen by both UA1 and UA2 is just what one would expect from the total number of proton-antiproton collisions that the two experiments have observed . |
| 11 | This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory . |
| 12 | Sri Lanka , like India , was subject to periodic increases in the price of grain , but the link between crime and economic hardship was not as strong as one would expect from the Indian evidence . |
| 13 | The speech by the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) was trenchant and honest , as one would expect from the hon. Gentleman . |
| 14 | From everything I have said , I am sure that my Hon. Friends will agree that it is a model pension scheme , which is what one would expect from the public sector . |