Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] might expect [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 2 | As you might expect from such headlong cross-breeding and hybridizing in the incessant search for something different and new , the various types are so widely stretched that the edges tend to run into each other and merge , and the dividing line becomes ever more difficult to discern . |
| 3 | In both studies the net disincentive effect was greater for higher-income groups , as one might expect with these paying higher marginal taxes ( stronger substitution effects ) . |
| 4 | As one might expect of such an assembly of talent , Sahara Blue is a stately , tasteful listen , but only at its best captures the poet 's urgency and potency . |
| 5 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |
| 6 | Though his tone was less strident , as one might expect from such a diffident traveller , Colin Thubron 's message to Sunday Telegraph readers was as plain : ‘ In any biography the relationship of author to subject forms a haunting subtext , and that of Molly Izzard to Freya Stark remains a question-mark to the book 's end . |
| 7 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |
| 8 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |