Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If interest is earned in a separate account from the cheque account I would expect automatic transfers to keep the cheque account at an agreed limit . |
| 3 | Hello darling , come on I said to her when she goes back to Tumbletots I shall expect big things of her . |
| 4 | If he is n't just amusing himself , then I can expect total siege . |
| 5 | As you 'd expect strong traces of the surging Pixies sound remain , but they 're delivered with a more melodic , playful edge , almost as if splitting up the band has allowed the real Black to emerge . |
| 6 | Even against the estate , the ride/handling/steering/braking package is by far the most convincing , as you would expect given SVE 's involvement . |
| 7 | In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears . |
| 8 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 9 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They are so frequent these days in London , which has eight of 20 First Division clubs , that we must expect aesthetic considerations to be overridden . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As Foresman ( 1986 ) suggests , we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If this is true we might expect paired males to be more vigilant than bachelor males . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But hang on , the fingerboard 's maple where we 'd expect African rosewood , and it looks wider . |
| 21 | In drawing these three threads together , it is fair to say that if , as we have shown , the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus , we shall expect similar marks in the Church of our age and every age as the Spirit displayed in the life of our Lord . |
| 22 | From what we know about their audience and their content , we would expect major differences between the influence of television and the influence of the press , and major differences also between the influence of highbrow and lowbrow sources . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We would expect temporary workers employed on open-ended contracts to do so as well . |
| 26 | Similarly , if score A has a positive Z score then we would expect variable B to have a variable Z score . |
| 27 | Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved . |
| 28 | If the two sets of scores are positively correlated , then we would expect positive Z scores to occur together and similarly negative Z scores should be paired . |
| 29 | But we would expect potential partners to be sympathetic , because surely healthy and sustainable stocks are to the advantage of everyone with a long-term interest in Namibia 's fisheries . ’ |
| 30 | We would expect different groups involved in the policy process to have power on different issues . |