Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] expect a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless , one may expect a greater similarity between two geometrically similar points than between two geometrically dissimilar points . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | What is reading ? — a simple question to which one would expect a simple answer . |
6 | Complete fluency in the first and second languages is taken as prerequisite for training ( and one would expect a working interpreter to command at least four or five languages ) . |
7 | I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme . |
8 | I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme . |
9 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
10 | one would expect a large variation in the fluency with which teachers can instruct in sign language ; many would have had no more than a relatively short course . |
11 | From the marked rise in the electrical conductivity of these saturated carbon-bearing samples as temperature and pressure increase , one would expect a high sample conductivity under lower-crustal conditions . |
12 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
13 | Using high copy number Long transgenics , one would expect a copy-dependent signal in the DNase I hypersensitivity assay . |
14 | For heterosexuals up to 1991 , the peak of HIV infection had yet to be reached and so one can expect a continued rise in the annual incidence of AIDS cases for some time to come . |
15 | And if Jesus is consubstantial with God , the Kingdom of Heaven need not be something that will be inaugurated on earth in the immediate future , but something external — another realm , another dimension , in which one can expect a welcome and a reserved place on one 's death . |
16 | For example , scales a tritone or a semitone apart have only two notes in common ; all other notes are different , and so one can expect a considerable degree of conflict unless ( as in the Bartók example ) adequate vertical consonance can be maintained . |
17 | Very well , no-one would expect a leading article in a newspaper — even a newspaper like this one which has , we hope , a reputation for behaving responsibly — to applaud plans to curb the freedom of the press . |