Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Thus , using a plural in a continuation based on the verb + with conditions , where we might expect some sort of strain , does indeed produce a reliably higher number of continuations using both . |
2 | But hang on , the fingerboard 's maple where we 'd expect African rosewood , and it looks wider . |
3 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
4 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
5 | The programmer will at least have tested the examples used in the documentation and so you can expect these , and procedures like them , to work ! |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Strongly stereotypical Creole features should be salient and positively valued as a symbol of identity , so we would expect these particular features of Creole to be accommodated to by everyone who attempts to engage in " chattin' Patois " . |
8 | We now have a situation where , in the unskilled occupations , an employer will take on a woman in preference to a man — since he would expect higher wages . |
9 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
10 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
11 | Even against the estate , the ride/handling/steering/braking package is by far the most convincing , as you would expect given SVE 's involvement . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Though you might expect some echoes of a Telecaster or a Les Paul Junior , it actually sounds like neither . |
14 | Not surprisingly these features are principally confined to the cities of the province , though we might expect some form of provision at those sites where water transport clearly played a part in moving bulky products like building stone or pottery ( p. 43 ) . |