Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] expect [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't think it was the sort of behaviour one should expect from a Director of Coaching . |
| 2 | In general , one notable but not fully comprehensive style ( or two or more styles which do not correspond ) is in evidence : another , " indefinite " style accompanies the individual — such as one might expect with the work of a mosaicist and a number of helpers . |
| 3 | Within this general analysis there is a considerable variety of micro-climates — as one might expect on a small island in the Atlantic with altitudes from sea-level to 1,800 metres . |
| 4 | There was a peculiar hissing sound in the room , a radiophonic kind of vibration , a noise one might expect on the sound-track of a science fiction film as the visiting card for the presence or arrival of aliens with long , bent , furry legs and eyes as scorching as red-hot coals . |
| 5 | In cross-section ( Fig. 3 ) , the wound front generally has a rounded or only slightly angular profile , rather than the flattened cellular protrusions one might expect at a leading edge that was actively crawling forwards over the exposed mesenchyme . |
| 6 | The chief argument for putting the Callovian in the Upper Jurassic was that this stage was markedly transgressive Over a large part of the Soviet Union and that , therefore , this was a natural break such as one might expect at a major stratigraphical boundary . |
| 7 | And the sporting Volcane version , while hot , is not the scorcher one might expect at the top of so accomplished a line-up . |
| 8 | This is a road of great promise , as one might expect of a highway that is paved almost all the way from Barrow in Alaska to Ushuaia in Argentina , and is — at 16,000 miles — the longest continuous route in the world . |
| 9 | Whilst this might be true , for some years now invertebrate neurophysiologists ( by which is meant those who study invertebrates , not a special group of researchers without backbones ! ) , who used to speak of their pet organisms as having simple nervous systems , have rephrased their claim , and refer instead to them as having ‘ simple ’ nervous systems , the inverted commas being deliberately added as a recognition that the complexity of these systems is still many orders of magnitude higher than in the genuinely simple wiring that one might expect of a mere computer . |
| 10 | The other tracts which were written by Lothar before he became pope show a pastoral concern , an interest in almsgiving , in sin , in penance , in the sacrament of marriage and in the priestly office ( " De sacro altaris mysterio " ) : perhaps what one might expect of a Paris theologian of this period . |
| 11 | Diphtheria and measles , against which mass vaccinations have also been instituted , showed fairly abrupt falls immediately after introduction of the respective vaccines and indicate what one might expect of a successful programme . |
| 12 | How many of the 200 knights should be counted as members of Lisiard of Amboise 's household can not be determined ; the number is rather more what one might expect of the household of a great prince . |
| 13 | The business is not doing well though sales are good — higher than one might expect in a town of this size and against significant competition — ’ |
| 14 | All spoke here of man 's work — his enterprise , his pleasure ; stately hotels vied with one another , handsome shops displayed in their windows all the luxuries one might expect in the great cities of the realm . |
| 15 | The range of natural environments contained within Yugoslavia itself is far greater than one might expect in an area only 5 per cent larger than the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | What I am talking of is , I suppose , the sort of progeny one might expect from a mating between the Arkleton Trust and the government-sponsored Plockton seminar |
| 17 | This was written late in his life and with his own declared interest in socialism and sociology there is a tendency to see things rather more ‘ socially ’ than one might expect from a child of the local corner shop . |
| 18 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 19 | A push button switches in the amp 's ‘ Enhance ’ circuitry , the effect of which is to condition the high order harmonics of the distorted sound , reputedly offering a less ‘ fizzy ’ tone than one might expect from a transistor amp . |
| 20 | His attitude to England seems terribly confused , as one might expect from a person who despises royalty but brandishes the cross of St George . |
| 21 | AS ONE might expect from a professional prosecutor , Barbara Mills , the Director of Public Prosecutions , last week called for defendants to lose the right to choose trial by jury . |
| 22 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 23 | The history of science is full of priority-disputes , mistakes and dogmatism , as one might expect from a human and provisional activity . |
| 24 | He is described as playing tricks on Jewish moneylenders in order to finance his soldiery , and generally behaving in a manner very far from what one might expect from the deeds of similar heroes such as Roland , Ogier or Lancelot . |
| 25 | Fuel burn at around 11 gallons per hour was what one might expect from the power plant , and the aircraft would undoubtedly benefit from turbo-charging although as always the trade-off in this is going to be increased maintenance costs . |
| 26 | As one might expect from the rise in the divorce rate , the proportion of single-parent families has been increasing . |
| 27 | Clearly the bigger the settlement , the more the greater the significance one might expect from the rail network in this context . |
| 28 | As one might expect from the discussion elsewhere in this chapter , there are a variety of reasons why adjustment to monetary union is not likely to be spread evenly across space . |
| 29 | Their search led , by the middle of the 1940s , to a compound , 2:6-diaminopurine , which had effects in mammals and chicks ‘ about what one would expect of a substance which interferes with nucleic acid metabolism in some way ’ . |
| 30 | Instead of focusing on this interdependence , as one would expect of a truly dynamic theory , Williamson discusses the efficient resolution of contractual problems that are associated with given techniques of production . |