Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wages themselves were good : a mounted archer was paid 6d a day , the wage a skilled craftsman might expect to earn in civilian life , and a man-at-arms received Is a day . |
| 2 | According to Martin Scorsese , who you might expect to know about such things , going to the cinema is like taking drugs . |
| 3 | The coalition had regard to-the- mechanics of the single transferable vote and made some attempt to match the number of candidates nominated with the support which those candidates might expect to attract in each constituency . |
| 4 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 5 | But it 's the sorta thing I 'd expect to hear from older people who 've been fighting a fight and are n't interested in anything I 'm doing . |
| 6 | The topics and situations envisaged in the conversations should be those that the student can expect to meet in real life . |
| 7 | We can expect to speak in other tongues , as I 've already mentioned from Mark sixteen , Jesus said it would happen . |
| 8 | The depth of colour you can expect to achieve in one week will depend on how dark your skin is naturally . |
| 9 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 10 | The intuition behind this optimal strategy is straightforward : it is optimal to sell all or nothing — all when the current price is higher than the price that one can expect to get on future sales , nothing otherwise ; it is optimal to produce at the point where marginal cost equals the expected price on sales . |