Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] [verb] been expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued . |
| 2 | He played Bobby Dupea with explosive sensitivity , as a promising musician who rejects a career to become an oil-rigger ; a rebel who , like Nicholson himself , had the chance of taking a particular course in life which would have provided him with comfort and stability , but chose a different route to that which might have been expected of him . |
| 3 | Their presence contrasts with the order which might have been expected to prevail but which they have somehow displaced . |
| 4 | McKeown ( 1976 ) and Hollingsworth ( 1982 ) insist that mortality response was the key to understanding the beginning of the demographic transition , particularly its continued decline despite the rapid population growth and urbanization of the nineteenth century , which might have been expected to raise the death rate . |
| 5 | This is a monitoring function , a comparison of the situation that exists with that which might have been expected . |
| 6 | It is clear , for example , that there are still striking regional variations in the use of custodial remands , in spite of the Bail Act 's attempt to structure the decision-making process , which might have been expected to iron out some of the more extreme disparities . |
| 7 | All are lowland species whose ancestors probably inhabited lowland forests and steppe ; curiously absent from the polar tundra are montane mammals of the subpolar fringe , for example Dall ( Figure 3.14 ) and snow sheep , marmots , pikas , and upland ( Siberian and red-backed ) voles , which might have been expected to take readily to life on the low tundra ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | In addition to relief forms , which he described as in no way different from those which might have been expected from water action , there are great waste fans at the foot of the Andes in the desert . |
| 9 | Police reports alleged that raids on Ershad 's residence after his arrest on Dec. 12 [ see p. 37907 ] had revealed assets in excess of those which could have been expected from a presidential income , as well as large quantities of unlicensed firearms . |
| 10 | The actual local air traffic will be compared with the level which would have been expected by natural growth as predicted by a successful Federal Aviation Administration model . |
| 11 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 12 | Maud 's living room was not what might have been expected of a Victorian scholar . |
| 13 | Paul Hale 's devotion to duty went beyond what could have been expected of anyone , said Mr Justice Otton . |
| 14 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |
| 15 | But the Gospels themselves confirm that Jesus and his entourage , in keeping with what would have been expected of the Messiah , were militant nationalists who did not shrink from violence . |