Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] expect [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 While they might be expected to say this , most do not admit to it .
2 Certainly , the habituation process described in Chapter 2 will be engaged during the first stage of a latent inhibition experiment and might be expected to play some part in determining the outcome .
3 Even commentaries on those crafts which might be expected to throw some new light on the broader " aesthetic environment " of mosaic , such as Lucian 's Dream , are of little assistance .
4 This module would , Minsky suggests , alone have access to the model ( again possibly false , of course ) of how it itself related to all the other , lower , modules , and it might be expected to have some property of the type we refer to as consciousness or self-consciousness .
5 To attempt defection would be to sign their death warrants , and no man could be expected to do that .
6 You could be expected to do some of these things , but not all .
7 Guzmán would remain potentially highly dangerous , even in prison , because his followers could be expected to use all possible means to try to force his release .
8 Everyone pretended to ignore the reaction of the surveyors to the fact that the senior administrative member of Rostov 's staff was a member of a race which could be expected to have little respect for the Imperial establishment .
9 As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard .
10 The second was that the son ‘ could be expected to have some influence over his elderly parents , and that is something of which the plaintiffs … should have been aware . ’
11 Few could be expected to assume that eccentricity .
12 Employees may be given time off for house hunting or may be expected to do this at weekends .
13 A national industrial relations system formulated with labour organisations which are an adjunct to a successful nationalist movement , which has secured independence , may be expected to show some characteristics different from [ one ] in which national independence antedated the union movements or in which the union movements played a minor role in the nationalist movement .
14 As the process of CLL goes on , the student becomes familiar with the new language and these negative feelings are dealt with , and the student may be expected to become more and more secure and independent .
15 Later on in life those same children may be expected to regard that Bible with such reverence , that the placing of a hand on a copy of it automatically makes their obligation to tell the truth more compelling .
16 Such mild long-term alterations to this acetylcholine may be expected to produce any observed changes in mood , activity and sense of well-being .
17 However , the builder may be expected to make some contribution towards travelling time and costs where he has failed to obtain suitable sub-contract labour within the vicinity of the site and a subcontractor is requested to travel an excessive distance .
18 As in Article 85 an illustrative list of prohibited practices is to be published , which will include such specific practices as price fixing or any other practices which may be expected to have that effect .
19 Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines .
20 If so , the conductivity of the rock at high pressures would be expected to mirror that of carbon .
21 ‘ If nitrate does , indirectly , cause cancer , it will be the long-term average that matters and the effect of any increase in cancer rates would be expected to take many years to become apparent …
22 Pools with the detritus would be expected to harbour more fish , but then predation from the belted kingfisher , Ceryle alcyon , increases .
23 If this was the case new reports would be expected to include fewer recent infections and the average age of people with newly diagnosed HIV infection and the proportion symptomatic at the time of the HIV-1 test would rise .
24 It is clear that established units ( i.e. those with established senses ) are more central than unestablished ones : an ideal dictionary would be expected to define all the established senses within each lexeme .
25 In our work , however , the carbon-bearing granulite samples have a higher porosity ( Table 1 ) and friable nature , and would be expected to lose much of their porosity , with associated loss of conductivity , when even small pressures are applied .
26 In most cases a man earning £300 per week would be expected to spend more than the man earning £100 per week , and so the transactions demand should be larger for the former .
27 People may , for example , be referred by general practitioners , who would be expected to provide any relevant information .
28 Children with health or developmental problems may need a higher standard of parental care and a reasonable parent would be expected to provide this .
29 A local authority would be expected to offer these services before seeking an order unless it had clear evidence that the parents would be unwilling or incapable of making use of them .
30 However , you would be expected to show some knowledge of , and interest in the affairs of the authority in question and of the issues affecting local government generally .
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