Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Peter Robinson , a Democratic Unionist MP , said people were sceptical of ‘ the idea of rogue cops going around to take out IRA terrorists — it 's the sort of stuff you might expect to see on television with Clint Eastwood ’ . |
2 | The conventional family division of labour not only reduces the number of hours a woman is available for paid work but also reduces the amount she could expect to earn per hour even in a non-discriminatory labour market . |
3 | Well this is the last place you 'd expect to come for summer sport but it 's here at Wembley on Monday that swindon town will bring their hopes and hearts … hello there … this is the stage where the fate … the future … the fortunes of Swindon Town will be decided in just one game against Leicester City … the prize a place in football 's premier league … so let's go down Wembley Way to size up the Big Match … |
4 | They 're just what you would expect to encounter on safari — except that the backdrop for these elephants is not the wilderness of Africa 's vast plains but the flower-bedecked veranda of a neat house . |
5 | jobs are not jobs you would expect to find in villages or large towns |
6 | It also outlines what guidance and support you can expect to get at work and what we expect from you in return . |
7 | The basis in threes was to be expected if God was a Trinity ; and indeed in Swainson 's high-church theology , we should expect to find in nature a network of analogies and symbols . |
8 | Put another way , the cost of capital is the cost to lenders and investors of not having done something else with their money : the rate of return they could expect to earn on investments of equal risk . |
9 | But erm I know my delegates wo n't , wo n't want to book at that er it 's , they , they will expect to book at prices quoted in the in the conference register . |