Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] expect [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
| 2 | You move into the south which is the area where landlord exploitation might have been at its most intense , where you would expect antagonisms to be greatest , where one would expect that peasants would be actually demanding land reform and , and indeed if you , you go back to , to the you 've clearly got that almost spontaneous underlying radicalism because of the , the intense landlord exploitation . |
| 3 | Japanese firms have enjoyed faster growth than American ones , so , on this basis , you would expect dividends to be lower . |
| 4 | Just as we could , perhaps , calculate the weight of the largest insect which could walk on a given liquid , so we can use these concepts to calculate how strong we ought to expect materials to be . |
| 5 | The correspondence principle states that we should expect wages to be rising more rapidly the larger is X i . |
| 6 | We would expect regulations to be drawn up under those headings in the hope that the privatised companies would be obliged to act upon them . |
| 7 | We would expect horses to be more comfortable with a horse that looked like itself because it would also be likely to look like its mother . |
| 8 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |