Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [modal v] expect a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either . |
2 | There 's a weekly farewell dinner and you can expect a welcoming drink on arrival . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | Happily , our foetuses are small , and we can expect a standard termination . |
5 | Complete fluency in the first and second languages is taken as prerequisite for training ( and one would expect a working interpreter to command at least four or five languages ) . |