Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the seminar based work mentioned above , I would expect the students to play a rather more organising role than previously . |
| 2 | And the pr we 're er , I would expect the profits of Thames to be in line with that that we expected when we acquired the business . |
| 3 | I would expect the causes to be physical and psychological ; overwork , the ennui of middle age , or a need to find some meaning to existence . |
| 4 | I will not seek to justify this , any more than I would expect the Tories to justify the three day week , the Suez Crisis or any other element of their sordid history , for what we are discussing is a situation facing thousands of people in this district today , and what we are gon na do to ensure that they have a future . |
| 5 | You might expect the governments of democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect ; but no . |
| 6 | You would expect the governments of most democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect ; but no . |
| 7 | So the bacterial genes share a common destiny with their host 's genes , and in my interpretation we should expect the bacteria to cooperate with their beetles in all aspects of life . |
| 8 | These days , we should expect the drivers of all trains to have two-way communication at all times with the signal box and those who are in control of the track . |
| 9 | All we have to do is to find out what the brains of our common ancestors looked like to find out how similar we might expect the brains of mammals to be . |
| 10 | For such an approach to be worth while , we would expect the changes in the data to be ‘ small ’ in some sense , so the new optimal tableau is close to the old one . |
| 11 | We would expect the numbers of these females , relative to the typical sexual females , to double in every generation . |
| 12 | In a sense , the meaning of the objects is encapsulated in the verb here , too , and so we would expect the expressions to be pleonastic . |
| 13 | ‘ What we will expect the regions to do is adhere to the firm budgets by doing their job properly , ’ he said . |
| 14 | As long as traditional media imagery , and so on , represents disabled people as tragic individuals , with no collective voice and with little access to each other , we can expect the activities of disabled people to go no further than personal complaint . |
| 15 | We can expect the protesters to continue with more vigour than usual this year , and to exhibit renewed enthusiasm when cruise hunting starts . |
| 16 | If ever he did go to the bazaar he would expect the shopkeepers to stand up when he entered … |