Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself . |
| 2 | He says , One might expect a big man to have big bottles , but if you are giving a big dinner party its very practical to have magnums . |
| 3 | Supporting the review , Tom Burlison , northern regional secretary of the GMB general union , said the public would expect a Labour government to use whatever was the most effective means of eliminating nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We would expect a Labour government to sweep away all those laws which conflict with the right to union recognition , which conflict with the social charter , and which conflict with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation , such as banning unions at GCHQ , Cheltenham , and banning collective pay bargaining for teachers . ’ |
| 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 ) . |
| 6 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 7 | His terracotta-tiled house with salmon pink shutters is hardly the sort of place you would expect a wealthy actor to buy . |
| 8 | Generally speaking , unless there are specific reasons why one or other of the criteria should be inapplicable ( some of these reasons will be discussed below ) , we shall expect an ambiguous item to satisfy all the criteria . |
| 9 | It will improve gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow ( unsecured creditors will regard it as similar to share capital ) but the holders will expect a higher yield to compensate them for their higher risk , although this should be less than that expected for preference share capital . |
| 10 | Notice in particular that we have not used , anywhere in our analysis , the " shape " of the tubes T and S , so we can expect a similar analysis to hold for all homoclinic orbits to the origin which occur in the Lorenz equations . |