Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] been expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | More units might have been expected to have explored the extra income potential of specialised products . |
| 2 | Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear . |
| 3 | These authorities accepted powers that strengthened local or regional elected authorities might have been expected to obtain . |
| 4 | Under the Commission 's system the region would have had 30 constituency seats of which , given similar hypothetical patterns of voting , the Liberals , Labour and the Conservatives might have been expected to win none , two and 28 respectively . |
| 5 | Mr Yeltsin , who in normal circumstances might have been expected to restrain the Russian nationalists , is fighting for political survival against a Congress of People 's Deputies highly critical of his economic reforms . |
| 6 | Previously those living with their parents would have been expected to continue living there . |
| 7 | Mergers are usually disturbing to employees and managers alike , and a merger of nearly 600 undertakings might have been expected to create more pain than most . |
| 8 | Such was the ferment of the times throughout Europe , and such was the rising volume of political controversy within Britain ( bear in mind also the Suffragette agitation and the conflict over the future of Ireland ) , that a more dramatic tipping of the balance than actually occurred in the next few years might have been expected . |
| 9 | Branson was told that in the week in which the Sex Pistols might have been expected to reach number one the BPI had issued an extraordinary secret directive to the British Market Research Bureau , who compiled the charts , that all chart-return shops connected with record companies should be dropped from the weekly census of best-selling records . |
| 10 | Considering the extensive area the complex covered and the large and varied number of the inmates , considerably more guards or prison officers might have been expected , with a much more rigid control over the movements and integration of the prisoners . |
| 11 | The 7% margin against the Council 's plans for monitoring visits to sole practitioners might have been expected to be larger in view of the fact that the response as a whole was weighted so heavily in favour of sole practitioners . |
| 12 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 13 | The planters might have been expected to see that slavery in the West Indies was wastefully debilitating , for the slaves died so fast that new ones had continuously to be brought in . |
| 14 | Certainly in the matter of military aid , as the working party concluded , the US ( without sending troops ) was in a position to make a unique contribution : but even more positive results might have been expected from economic assistance . |
| 15 | This in itself was unusual , as the high-ranking patrons would have been expected to display classical scenes in their houses , leading to the supposition that these intimate portraits of courtesans were most probably on view only in the private apartments . |
| 16 | The STA as a whole was left with debts totalling £6,260 in the 1870s , and " the greater part of this sum was absorbed by the members of the Edinburgh branch … [ who ] above all others might have been expected to stand by the office-bearers till the debt was at least liquidated " . |
| 17 | Over this time , 0.022 melanomas would have been expected in the local population . |
| 18 | The young lover proposes to lie back and watch others work while he listens to birds singing , freeing himself from the duty and responsibility shepherds would have been expected to attend to . |