Example sentences of "[modal v] expect the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | You 'd expect the unhelpful advance publicity to make him wary of the Press . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |