Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [been] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an action would have been expected to lower the cyclic AMP content irrespective of the agonist used to stimulate the cells . |
| 2 | A more concerted action by governments to address this quiet massacre might have been expected , but part of the problem is the lack of a single international forum to deal with the management of small cetaceans . |
| 3 | There is a minor mystery about this mode , for Tolkien might have been expected not to like it . |
| 4 | The Black Prince might have been expected to step into his father 's shoes and fulfil the promise he had shown at Crécy and Poitiers ; but he developed an illness in Spain in 1367 which never entirely left him . |
| 5 | Judging by the problems caused by regional specialization when an area 's specialism went into decline , this shift might have been expected to lessen the degree of uneven development . |
| 6 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 7 | Qly Ab Return ; quarterly abnormal return ( per cent ) , this represents the difference between what the share might have been expected to earn over the previous quarter given its beta value and the risk free rate of return , and the return of the market over the same period ( ; where the expected return is equal to ) . |
| 8 | Leadership might have been expected from the more substantial merchants , members of the élite merchant guilds established by Peter and reformed by Catherine . |
| 9 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 10 | Both of the hypertonic ORS contained higher glucose concentrations and higher water obsorption might have been expected from these solutions because of a greater stimulatory effect on active glucose transport . |
| 11 | After all , what he seemed to be suggesting was that a woman with her not inconsiderable sex drive might have been expected , long ago , to have found a man to satisfy it . |
| 12 | The first machines that could be connected to the public telephone networks were introduced in the 1950s , and at this point today 's enthusiasm for fax might have been expected to appear . |
| 13 | An association between the ACE/ID polymorphism and blood pressure might have been expected from its anticipated effect on vascular tone and architecture . |
| 14 | If you are ultimately dismissed and present a claim to the industrial tribunal , the basic question will be whether , in all the circumstances , the employer could have been expected to wait any longer before taking positive action . |
| 15 | Usually , it is assumed that Clovis must be the monarch in question , but if so the failure to name him is peculiar : his reputation might have been expected to add lustre to the code . |
| 16 | The increased expression of the colon antigen on target cells by IFN-γ treatment might have been expected to enhance anticolon ADCC activity , but there was no significant difference in the colon antigen expression tested by anticolon antibody positive serum samples between the IFN-γ treated and untreated target cells . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the reduction in IGFBP-1 values after steroid treatment might have been expected to increase the availability of IGF-I for growth . |
| 18 | If only passive properties determine the pressure elastic modulus , an exponential increase would have been expected . |
| 19 | She was , in fact , somewhat ashamed that Edna was witness to so many things which , coming from a large , poor but loving family , must surely be incomprehensible to the girl : Liza 's aversion to picking up her child , never attempting to play with Celia , her obvious relief when Edna performed such tasks which any normal mother might have been expected to undertake willingly . |
| 20 | The majority in favour of allowing sole practice on the traditional model to continue without restriction might have been expected to be larger given the preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole . |
| 21 | Last year , a passive solar collector on a house would have been expected to pay for itself in 12 to 15 years . |