Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] expect [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get the whole story , though , you need to raise the bonnet because there , nestling in the space where you might expect to find a nice , sensible Marks & Spencer diesel , there is a 4.3 litre V6 motor , which , for good measure , is turbocharged and intercooled . |
| 2 | A 400-year-old school for boys in Shrewsbury is hardly the place you might expect to find a true example of hi-tech living . |
| 3 | If you learned to fly on an American machine , you will expect to apply a little left foot as you raise the collective and increase the power . |
| 4 | You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school . |
| 5 | In most private schemes , you can expect to receive an extra 9 per cent for every year that you delay retirement . |
| 6 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
| 7 | We may expect to generate a better estimate by using pseudo-costs . |
| 8 | ‘ Leicester is a city in which we should expect to have a good general bookshop , and we shall be looking for a bigger and better site in the city . ’ |
| 9 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 10 | This comparative static result suggests that in empirical work we would expect to observe a positive correlation between alternative wages or unemployment benefits , and union wages and membership , but also possibly a sharp discontinuity in this relationship . |
| 11 | The quality of product delivered by BR management is experienced daily by the many thousands who travel to and from Waterloo , where the indicator boards are frequently inactive at peak travel time in the evening , and only the desultory , forlorn and uncertain voices of junior staff is available to advise hapless passengers over the tannoy when and where they might expect to find an uncancelled train to get them home on time — if they are lucky — and to deliver an occasional apology . |
| 12 | They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term . |
| 13 | Students may then be asked in what physical form and in what situation they would expect to find a given piece of discourse . |
| 14 | It could expect to defeat a lesser power like Argentina , but taking on Communist China was unthinkable . |