Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should expect the mass-selling tabloid press to have a stronger influence on public attitudes and choices than on public information and perceptions . |
| 2 | As Barr et al ( 1989 ) put it , ‘ We must expect the new independent hospitals to act like any profit-maximising firm . |
| 3 | An interesting possibility is that , with a wider tropical belt than at present , one might expect an equatorial hyper-tropical belt around the equator , with minimum temperatures not known in modern seas . |
| 4 | Equally one might expect the full-time paid CAB worker , who normally eschews the middle-class volunteer , to cheer the broadening of the CAB volunteer base . |
| 5 | You 'd expect the unhelpful advance publicity to make him wary of the Press . |
| 6 | As the insurance companies could expect a huge increased revenue , they in turn could be expected to bear a large proportion of the cost of implementing the scheme . |
| 7 | Soldiers , after all , were ‘ bad ’ at making wills , but obtained concessions on political grounds ; their civilian compatriots were surely just as likely to slip up but could expect no such special treatment : a trust clause could make all the difference to the success of their dying wishes . |
| 8 | From the results of cardiac transplantation to date many more such patients could expect an excellent long term outlook if referred before developing secondary end organ dysfunction , but more importantly if the supply of available donor organs could be increased . |
| 9 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 10 | At this point in the tale most readers would expect a tragi- heroic ending , and indeed in the hands of Rider Haggard or Masefield this would almost certainly have been the case . |
| 11 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |
| 12 | From what has been said , we would expect the heaviest proportionate effects of the government 's many methods of reducing employment to fall on the North . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Theoretically , one would expect the Northern catholic community and the six counties of Ulster to be considered a lost remnant , unredeemed from British rule , and indeed this is by far the most popular interpretation . |
| 17 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 18 | If senescence is primarily due to late-acting deleterious mutations , then ( other things being equal ) one would expect the additive genetic variance for survival and fertility to increase with age . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Tourists too can expect a right Royal welcome , for the traditional friendliness of the islanders makes everyone feel at home . |
| 21 | With these photographs as a reference point we can expect a traditional Gandini shape when we see the car on 15 September next year , the 110th anniversary of Ettore Bugatti 's birth . |
| 22 | IT 'S only June and this week alone you can expect a staggering 130 repeats . |