Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] expect [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody should expect this sleeping dog to lie . |
| 2 | There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) . |
| 3 | If stars could shrink to as small as ten or twenty miles across to become neutron stars , one might expect that other stars could shrink even further to become black holes . |
| 4 | If ideology reflects economic organization , then one might expect that modern consciousness should contain its universalistic and its particularistic common-places . |
| 5 | Many hon. Members on both sides of the House have cut their political teeth in local government and one would expect such Conservative Members to show more loyalty towards it . |
| 6 | One would expect modern social representations to incorporate opposing themes ( see Billig , 1982 , for a discussion of the internally contradictory themes of modern ideology ) . |
| 7 | In the normal course of events , one would expect those high standards to suffice for more than five years ; but these are not normal times . |
| 8 | This imposes restrictions on the type of chain which can be crystallized with ease and , as mentioned earlier , one would expect symmetrical linear chains such as polyesters , polyamides , and polyethylene to crystallize most readily . |
| 9 | One would expect this large amount of positive feed-back to lead to instability : as soon as the input is strong enough to excite one or two neurons , one would expect these to feed back on to others and initiate an explosive chain reaction . |