Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd expect to find deep-seated internal bruising , but it 's possible to get this without many superficial signs . |
| 2 | For example whatever the nature of the case be it acute or chronic I would expect to see some signs of improvement indicating a curative response within a very short while . |
| 3 | So as I say I would expect to see these percentages significantly increased erm . |
| 4 | Few people write a first draft perfectly and you should expect to complete several revisions . |
| 5 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 6 | How has modern portfolio theory been used to evaluate portfolio performance and show how and why you might expect to find different performance rankings from the different measures . |
| 7 | That 's where you might expect to find cold wine . |
| 8 | Well it was just so funny , it 's just the kind of place you 'd expect to see naughty boys , there was you sitting to the |
| 9 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |
| 10 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
| 11 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
| 12 | On , on , on past experience that 's roughly what the yield has been , on an average year you would expect to get that . |
| 13 | Similarly , when the functions of institutions alter radically we may expect to see corresponding structural changes . |
| 14 | In concrete terms , Miliband has argued that in a capitalist society , the interests of private capital will invariably and necessarily be taken into account in the development of public policy and so we should not expect to see business leaders standing on a soap box anymore than we should expect to see those who enjoy the ear of government organising on the streets . |
| 15 | Saddam Hussein 's actions are a response to Third World powerlessness — and one we should expect to see more of . |
| 16 | If we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour G Tec , and if G Tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems , and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services . |
| 17 | If these theories are by and large correct we should expect to find proteinoid globules occurring spontaneously in modern volcanic environments . |
| 18 | In this latter case it is important to realise that we should expect to get true hyphenated justification or H&J as it is commonly known . |
| 19 | In this category we might expect to find phonological and grammatical features which are sufficiently different from British English to be salient , but which do not involve , in J.C . |
| 20 | ‘ Naturally we shall expect to hold these . |
| 21 | In the living world too , we shall expect to find complex and sophisticated design wherever we are dealing with the end-products of a long , asymmetric arms race in which advances on one side have always been matched , on a one-to-one , point-for-point basis , by equally successful antidotes ( as opposed to competitors ) on the other . |
| 22 | However , in practice , if your claim is successful we would expect to recover all or most of your legal costs in addition to the compensation and so there would be little or no shortfall . |
| 23 | In the case of both Interleaf and Xerox 's Documenter the companies have also recognised the importance of being able to accept textual or graphic information from other sources and this is something that we would expect to see other vendors follow suit on . |
| 24 | If we were to move from standstill to cutbacks , we would expect to see further changes in behaviour . |
| 25 | The implications of this for employment are that we would still expect to see large-scale manufacturing in developed countries , absorbing substantial amounts of labour ( though this labour would be involved in knowledge work rather than metal-bashing ) ; and we would expect to see more labour employed again in small firms producing semi-custom-made products or services using machinery produced by the large companies . |
| 26 | Having said that er we would prefer a quota system for er Stansted because without it , we could have a large number of noisey flights into Stansted and , and also that er in terms of er both this and further consultations we would expect to see full information providing us from er , a to enable us to make a sensible conclusion . |
| 27 | Going by their logic , we would expect to see riotous behaviour by stressed small business owners and financial investors at rugby union or American football matches . |
| 28 | ‘ And while we would expect to win that game at home , I 'm under no illusions . |
| 29 | Consequently , as in all-male groups in modern gelada populations , we would expect to find much less in the way of mutual antagonism and more in the way of sociability and cooperation . |
| 30 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |