Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be absolutely open with you — we do have difficulties over cash , but when you see the business we 've got lined up … well , this time next year I 'll expect the bank to be standing me a slap-up lunch ! |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd expect the Marketing Director of a firm this size to claim twice as much for overnight stays . ’ |
| 3 | In all the seminar based work mentioned above , I would expect the students to play a rather more organising role than previously . |
| 4 | From my experience of other , similar cases I would expect the cost of investigating your claim , including the cost of a full medical report and VAT , to be approximately £X . |
| 5 | Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't think ye should expect the teacher to do everything . |
| 10 | ‘ In the public service you must expect the clock to go somewhat slower than in any other organisation . |
| 11 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 12 | You might expect the creator of such grisly images to be a bit of a ghoul himself but Hutson is a small , chirpy bloke who lives with wife Belinda in a new , mock-Tudor Bovis home in Milton Keynes , listens to heavy metal music and supports Liverpool . |
| 13 | Now , what we 'll do is do exactly the same but this time for a negatively correlated score , and you might expect the Z scores to be paired up like so . |
| 14 | You might expect the governments of democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect ; but no . |
| 15 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
| 16 | If you compare what most people earn what most people earned six years ago with what they earn now , they would expect that earning to have increased , so you 'd expect the budget to increase . |
| 17 | Obviously you 'd expect the revenue to do this , would n't you ? |
| 18 | You 'd expect the productivity to fall would n't you , if you were actually operating a fax service because you 'd save , you 'd take more time to monitor it |
| 19 | It 's also rumbly and hissy , and you 'd expect the DI to be virtually silent . |
| 20 | And I will have a piece of tape which says , ‘ Well yes of course you would expect the Chairman of the County Council to get food poisoning in this particular restaurant because we have prosecuted him three times . |
| 21 | In fact the more positive one is , the more positive you would expect the other to be . |
| 22 | If they 're negatively correlated , then you would expect the Z score for one to be positive and the other to be negative , or negative and positive . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , you would expect the majority of modules to be certificated successfully because they are being run by professional staff in centres which have been validated — in other words the centre 's resources , staff and support systems have been found to be adequate to run each module . |
| 24 | When you can not discover the length of the cone it is best to err on the generous side whilst using your previous experience to decide how many cones you would expect the garment to take . |
| 25 | When you can not discover the length on the cone it is best to err on the generous side whilst using your previous experience to decide how many cones you would expect the garment to take . |
| 26 | ‘ From this trading account , you would expect the business as a whole to have made a thumping loss for the year … |
| 27 | You would expect the tropics to support more life than the high latitudes , simply because they receive more solar energy . |
| 28 | You would expect the governments of most democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect ; but no . |
| 29 | Quite apart from the inevitable pay rises , you would expect the Brasserie 's wages to be a bit up on L'Auberge 's since city centre rates are likely to be higher . |
| 30 | With the top finally off , leaving a sloping cut to make sure that rain and dew does n't lie there , you can expect the bud to grow away fast . |