Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may expect no mass media to crusade , no millions of strangers to become suddenly familiar with my name and anxious for my cause . |
| 2 | Hm , I 'll expect the other friends will take something . |
| 3 | They were sure I could expect a large present from her , either before or after her death . |
| 4 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 5 | I would expect the American people would also react very favourably to it . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd have thought an organisation like Amnesty would be in the forefront of anti-sexism , but I 've come across sexism before where I would expect an enlightened attitude ( eg Greenpeace ) |
| 7 | ‘ If Clinton can not get the economy started and has trouble financing his ambitious spending programme , you may expect a greater withdrawal from foreign commitments , trade sanctions — whatever he thinks it will take , ’ said one analyst . |
| 8 | To the watching girl it became increasingly obvious that she could expect no more help . |
| 9 | Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card . |
| 10 | ‘ With most criminal kidnaps you could expect a long wait . |
| 11 | His terracotta-tiled house with salmon pink shutters is hardly the sort of place you would expect a wealthy actor to buy . |
| 12 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 13 | Just as you would expect the fabulous Theme Park combined America 's colourful past , present and future in one glorious location , and those same world famous attractions you can see in California and Florida — MAIN STREET USA , FRONTIERLAND , ADVENTURELAND , FANTASYLAND , DISCOVERYLAND — will all be lovingly re-created right here in Europe . |
| 14 | Of course , you would expect the native breed i.e. Exmoor and they are registered by the Exmoor Pony Society ( address from editor , ‘ Today 's Horse ’ ) . |
| 15 | As you would expect the high level of vitality in children means they respond quickly and they generally wo n't need as many doses of the remedy . |
| 16 | If brought to trial , she can expect a long prison sentence , followed by ‘ re-education through labour ’ in a camp in Qinghai — ‘ China 's Siberia ’ — an Area like the Sahara desert , in the west of the country , where the climate is notorious for its boiling heat in summer and freezing temperatures in winter . |
| 17 | If you go to a fancy-dress party as a Turkish dancer , you can expect a good time ; if you travel on public transport late at night in such a get-up it will probably cause nothing but trouble . |
| 18 | There 's a weekly farewell dinner and you can expect a welcoming drink on arrival . |
| 19 | You can expect a few difficulties and the occasional setback . |
| 20 | You can expect a few aches tomorrow , as new exercises usually cause our muscles to respond 48 hours after we do them . |
| 21 | So you can expect the geometric pattern lounge carpet to look sharp in years to come . |
| 22 | Perhaps , as with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , this is where we may expect the next rifting , though I doubt if it will happen soon enough to substantiate my idea . |
| 23 | Hence , given that they are held to bear less risk , we should expect a lower return . |
| 24 | Realistically we should expect a mixed experience as at the start of all major new programmes . |
| 25 | Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself . |
| 26 | We might expect a clear relationship , for example , between the number of school children and the amount of spending on education . |
| 27 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 28 | Alternatively , we might expect the predation- pattern to show a form of apostatic selection ( Clarke , 1962 ) : the dog-whelks choosing the most frequently encountered of the potential prey species . |
| 29 | If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future . |
| 30 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |