Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] expect [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a rough grey face , full of rifts and clefts and fissures , out of which , someone said , you might expect lichens to grow . |
| 2 | You might expect leopards to keep away from forest tracks frequented by humans but they often use them for preference . |
| 3 | we may expect continuations to have to do with plumbing , in which the plumber is offering advice to Mary , and so they are playing different roles . |
| 4 | Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly . |
| 5 | We must expect contractors to take care of all operations ON A project including : — |
| 6 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
| 7 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
| 8 | On a priori grounds we would expect humans to have an auditory area corresponding to temporal visual cortex since speech requires the categorical perception of sounds . |
| 9 | We would expect individuals to belong to more than one of these groups . |
| 10 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 11 | We would expect pupils to demonstrate their growing competence as both speakers and listeners by : |
| 12 | We are now in DIP 's third phase of evolution where we can expect vendors to supply comprehensive workflow software , providing intelligent automation of office tasks and complete integration with other computer systems in the business , as well as the automatic routing of document images to those who need to work with them . |
| 13 | From now to the end of the year we can expect governments to make a big effort to secure a settlement . |
| 14 | How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft . |