Example sentences of "[be] expect [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 2 | The multi-dimensional scaling configuration resulting from processing the ‘ degree of intermarriage ’ values might therefore be expected to reflect geographical location of the villages . |
| 3 | The White Paper takes the same approach : ‘ Local authorities will be expected to make maximum use of the independent sector . |
| 4 | Local authorities will be expected to make maximum use of the independent sector . |
| 5 | However , you would be expected to show some knowledge of , and interest in the affairs of the authority in question and of the issues affecting local government generally . |
| 6 | However on the basis of the evidence from the research on the relationship between age and subjects which we have discussed above , it seems likely that non-traditionally qualified students in areas such as science and engineering might be expected to achieve lower levels of success than those in areas such as arts or social sciences . |
| 7 | While younger pupils can not be expected to have great depth of understanding and indeed will not reach a mature conceptual level of historical understanding until their mid-teens , none the less the initial building bricks in the process can be laid from the very beginning of the pupil 's school career . |
| 8 | This module would , Minsky suggests , alone have access to the model ( again possibly false , of course ) of how it itself related to all the other , lower , modules , and it might be expected to have some property of the type we refer to as consciousness or self-consciousness . |
| 9 | There are five specific reasons for not calling a witness given in r25 — namely , that the witness is dead or beyond the seas or unfit by reason of bodily or mental condition to attend as a witness or that , despite the exercise of reasonable diligence , it has not been possible to identify or find him or that he can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection of matters relevant to the accuracy or otherwise of the statement . |