Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] been expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 2 | Historically the transport business has always been a male dominated area therefore it may have been expected that the drivers would bite hard on their Yorkie bars and throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of not only having a lady boss , but one who had n't even got a driving licence for a Mini let alone a 38-tonne artic . |
| 3 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |
| 4 | If complete public openness is the policy , it might have been expected that the public would have free access to governors ' meetings so that they could hear the arguments for policy and resource allocations within the school . |
| 5 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 6 | It might have been expected that such a paper from Nägeli , who was one of the most distinguished botanists in Europe at that time , would have had immense impact on the early development of plant ecology . |
| 7 | The reconceptualisation which feminism is attempting has a direct and vital bearing on central philosophical issues , not only in political philosophy where it might have been expected , but also in epistemology , ontology , philosophy of mind , and ethics . |
| 8 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 9 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 10 | The subject of modern poetry coming up , which it might have been expected to do , D'Arcy put forward the view that the best of the younger poets was Louis MacNeice , because he had had a classical education . |
| 11 | Comparative sociology is supposed to be the attempt to generate universal propositions on the basis of systematic comparisons of a variety of different societies , and so it might have been expected to stimulate thinking about the global system . |
| 12 | Arguing from silence is dangerous , but had he played a significant role in Cnut 's Scandinavian wars of c.1025-8 ( see below ) information about it might have been expected to survive , and so he perhaps did disappear from the scene soon after 1023 . |
| 13 | It might have been expected that strategies aimed to change the stressful circumstances themselves would be an important feature of the coping responses they uncovered . |
| 14 | Similarly , it might have been expected that " space station " would score even higher than 87% . |
| 15 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 16 | Merckx was known as ‘ the cannibal ’ , so often did he scoop up the prizes , even in minor events when he might have been expected to allow minor or local riders to have their day . |
| 17 | The Army in their Heads of Proposals offered the King terms which he might have been expected to find much more acceptable . |
| 18 | He was reminded of his right of silence by being cautioned on two occasions within a short time of his arrival and , acting on the advice of his attorney , he remained silent when he might have been expected to explain that the shooting had been due to an accident . |
| 19 | The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him . |
| 20 | Where goodwill still has to be valued in relation to payments to outgoing partners , one of two bases is likely to be used : ( 1 ) excess profits , that is to say the amount by which an outgoing partner 's profit share exceeded ( a ) what he might have been expected to earn as an employed solicitor , and ( b ) the income he might have been expected to receive from investing his capital contributions in safe securities ; or , and much more frequently , ( 2 ) the average net profits of the partner concerned . |
| 21 | Where goodwill still has to be valued in relation to payments to outgoing partners , one of two bases is likely to be used : ( 1 ) excess profits , that is to say the amount by which an outgoing partner 's profit share exceeded ( a ) what he might have been expected to earn as an employed solicitor , and ( b ) the income he might have been expected to receive from investing his capital contributions in safe securities ; or , and much more frequently , ( 2 ) the average net profits of the partner concerned . |
| 22 | If Hazel had been a human being he would have been expected to introduce his companions one by one and no doubt each would have been taken in charge as a guest by one of their hosts . |
| 23 | less funding than it would have been expected to have . |