Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
2 | If we were to move from standstill to cutbacks , we would expect to see further changes in behaviour . |
3 | For example whatever the nature of the case be it acute or chronic I would expect to see some signs of improvement indicating a curative response within a very short while . |
4 | Thus one would expect to observe negative coefficients on the current and lagged . |
5 | If there were large regions of anti-matter in our galaxy , we would expect to observe large quantities of radiation from the borders between the regions of matter and antimatter , where many particles would be colliding with their antiparticles , annihilating each other and giving off high energy radiation . |
6 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
7 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
8 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
9 | Although more tension may be applied to the lower posterior wall of the reservoir than to the anterior wall during construction , one would expect to show greater differences in scores for these sites in relatively recently constructed reservoirs compared with those that had been in situ for several years , and the pathological changes would also be expected to be more like those of mucosal ischaemia . |
10 | This becomes more important with increasing age , when people can expect to lose long-standing friends at an ever-increasing rate . |
11 | J-registered Cavalier SRi saloons and hatches are good value at auction and bidders can expect to secure 1992 cars with under 10,000 miles from company and fleet sources for around £8250 . |