Example sentences of "lead one expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title of this book leads one to expect a contribution to the solution of this problem , but unfortunately these hopes are soon dashed . |
| 2 | It 's opening leads one to expect a knowing , ‘ insider ’ political novel , but it turns out to be the story of a destructive sexual passion , complete with purple passages , the saga of a successful man who becomes obsessed with his son 's mistress , who is only too willing to oblige . |
| 3 | The ability of this young quartet to present two works from such different worlds so convincingly , led one to expect that Dvorak 's American quartet would be a powerful experience ; but what might have been hot-blooded came over as an indoor gypsy — more pretty than potent . |
| 4 | Contrary to what folk models of the RUC might lead one to expect , most policemen and women at Easton have not even drawn their gun , let alone fired it . |
| 5 | In the two West Midlands boroughs there was a clear tendency for the Conservatives to do better and Labour worse than a similar examination of a wide range of ward social characteristics would lead one to expect . |
| 6 | Another example of ‘ all published ’ , though ‘ the first part ’ on the title would normally lead one to expect more . |
| 7 | When the pressures of the market and of urban local democracy ( which had earlier restricted rural development ) were replaced by ministerial investment control and rural pressure group activity at the national level , the consequences for efficiency and equality were not always those which the rival contemporary slogans of left and right might lead one to expect from them . |
| 8 | The views of Luria , and the findings of more recent work by Ferreiro on South American children , are not well supported by the outcomes of Jones 's Edinburgh study , where the developmental picture that emerges is less neat and tidy than Ferreiro 's work would lead one to expect . |
| 9 | As this argument would lead one to expect , children showed considerable cognitive and linguistic abilities in handling intentional mode explanations , despite their complexity . |
| 10 | The finding of Butler and Glass ( 1974 ) that the magnitude of the CNV was greater over the left hemisphere prior to a verbal task and greater over the right hemisphere prior to a facial discrimination task might lead one to expect that the direction of CNV asymmetry can be predicted on the basis of selective hemispheric involvement in particular tasks . |
| 11 | And yet the treatment of his characters is not exactly what that prefatory article of his might have led one to expect . |
| 12 | A few chapters of Music , Mind , and Brain are stimulating and produce the right sort of sparks ; but others jar either because they are couched in long-winded jargon , or because they set off with a title and intent , which lead one to expect something new in the way of results , but then degenerate into vague speculations . |