Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Hence , given that they are held to bear less risk , we should expect a lower return .
2 Realistically we should expect a mixed experience as at the start of all major new programmes .
3 The Christians should expect the indwelling Spirit to make a difference .
4 ‘ If Clinton can not get the economy started and has trouble financing his ambitious spending programme , you may expect a greater withdrawal from foreign commitments , trade sanctions — whatever he thinks it will take , ’ said one analyst .
5 Nevertheless , one may expect a greater similarity between two geometrically similar points than between two geometrically dissimilar points .
6 Perhaps , as with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , this is where we may expect the next rifting , though I doubt if it will happen soon enough to substantiate my idea .
7 In view of the potential benefits to be gained by local communities from providing food and accommodation and other requirements , one might expect every small town and village throughout rural Scotland to be demanding a long-distance recreational route on their doorstep .
8 Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions .
9 Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself .
10 As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed .
11 We might expect a clear relationship , for example , between the number of school children and the amount of spending on education .
12 Passers- by might expect a few satin teddies in the window .
13 He says , One might expect a big man to have big bottles , but if you are giving a big dinner party its very practical to have magnums .
14 Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either .
15 Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs .
16 Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR .
17 In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) .
18 Alternatively , we might expect the predation- pattern to show a form of apostatic selection ( Clarke , 1962 ) : the dog-whelks choosing the most frequently encountered of the potential prey species .
19 If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future .
20 If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today
21 Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card .
22 They boasted that it was the worst they 'd ever known , and could expect a million profit with confidence .
23 ‘ With most criminal kidnaps you could expect a long wait .
24 Stevens was one of the most meticulous of film directors and any actor working with him could expect a gruelling time .
25 If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) .
26 Important or insignificant , customs appointments were , however , obtainable only by those who could expect a political favour , and many of the officers were in fact the nominees of a member of parliament and often the active partisans of that politician .
27 Therefore , as Ernest Tuveson points out in Imagination as a Means of Grace : ‘ From the nature of mind as described by Locke we could expect a new poetry to be highly visual in nature , for the faculty of sight came to monopolize the analysis of intellectual activity . ’
28 Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty .
29 Mariot capped this by suggesting that , since the Earl Patrick would presumably intend to yield that castle should Berwick town fall to King Edward , he could expect a greater reward from that monarch if the castle was nominally his own , not just a crown possession .
30 What appalling style , even twenty years ago one could expect a better standard of English .
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