Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] expect [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Mark Crowe , the Argus sport and nature ramble hack , well , I thought I could expect some loyalty there . |
| 2 | The SmartLink Pocket Modem 24 was fine , but at £249 I 'd expect better software than FaxNow ! |
| 3 | Williams , who saw his initial Derby prospect , Pond Tornado , eliminated , said : ‘ I would expect New Level to win his heat but Pond Pavarotti is on a wing and a prayer . |
| 4 | Our farm has shown growth right from grandfather 's day in 1921 and I would expect that growth would continue . |
| 5 | If he is n't just amusing himself , then I can expect total siege . |
| 6 | Therefore the chances are , and this is statistical , it 's a statistical chance , in general I can expect any mutation in me to be passed on to half my offspring complete . |
| 7 | He was referring to ‘ prime ’ and ‘ premium ’ sausages in which you might expect leaner meat , less filler material , or less fat . |
| 8 | The programme never described him as such , though he certainly wields the authority you would expect that title would give him . |
| 9 | Even against the estate , the ride/handling/steering/braking package is by far the most convincing , as you would expect given SVE 's involvement . |
| 10 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
| 11 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
| 12 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 13 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 14 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 15 | In general , if one individual is able to make its future actions plainer than another and if it derives benefit from doing so ( which does not seem implausible in a social context ) , then we should expect evolutionary change in the effectiveness of such signals . |
| 16 | The evidence presented in Tables 9.3 and 9.4 lends weight to the statement that being less risky we should expect less return from fixed interest investments whichever country is being considered . |
| 17 | c ) Since our view of the language will change profoundly , we must expect substantial influence on the specification of syllabuses , design of materials and choice of method . |
| 18 | We must expect another visit fast . |
| 19 | If genes could discover a chink of an unorthodox route through to another body ( alongside , or instead of , the orthodox sperm or egg route ) , we must expect natural selection to favour their opportunism and improve it . |
| 20 | As Foresman ( 1986 ) suggests , we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role . |
| 21 | Thus , using a plural in a continuation based on the verb + with conditions , where we might expect some sort of strain , does indeed produce a reliably higher number of continuations using both . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly these features are principally confined to the cities of the province , though we might expect some form of provision at those sites where water transport clearly played a part in moving bulky products like building stone or pottery ( p. 43 ) . |
| 23 | The net effect will vary according to the cost conditions within the particular industry under consideration , and within the real world we might expect considerable variation from one industry to another . |
| 24 | Another Friday 13th was approaching so I was certain we could expect another move , maybe the big one . |
| 25 | Clearly , we could expect some sort of boundary indication , such as a pause , to occur long before the end of this utterance . |
| 26 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
| 27 | But hang on , the fingerboard 's maple where we 'd expect African rosewood , and it looks wider . |
| 28 | Now we would expect that justification to emerge from this examination and in due course to be embodied in the er lower case script for the alteration itself . |
| 29 | It said in a statement that ’ in future , if any any competitor is found to have traces of Clenbuterol in his urine , we would expect disciplinary action by the weighlifter 's association . ’ |
| 30 | Where hedges become very interesting , and suggest a huge meadow of fresh research , is when they appear in contexts where a priori we would expect total precision , such as in scientific lectures . |