Example sentences of "[prep] be expect [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
2 | It is not to be expected that each sentence written will obey grammar rules . |
3 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
4 | The topic of interpersonal distance has a copious literature in its own right ( see Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) and it is to be expected that any effects due to hemispheric asymmetry will interact with social and personality factors in different ways under different circumstances . |
5 | To the idealist , the whole world is a manifestation of a rational pattern in the mind of its Creator , and thus it is to be expected that natural forms should reveal a harmony and an underlying unity . |
6 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |