Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] been expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically the transport business has always been a male dominated area therefore it may have been expected that the drivers would bite hard on their Yorkie bars and throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of not only having a lady boss , but one who had n't even got a driving licence for a Mini let alone a 38-tonne artic . |
| 2 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |
| 3 | If complete public openness is the policy , it might have been expected that the public would have free access to governors ' meetings so that they could hear the arguments for policy and resource allocations within the school . |
| 4 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 5 | It might have been expected that such a paper from Nägeli , who was one of the most distinguished botanists in Europe at that time , would have had immense impact on the early development of plant ecology . |
| 6 | The reconceptualisation which feminism is attempting has a direct and vital bearing on central philosophical issues , not only in political philosophy where it might have been expected , but also in epistemology , ontology , philosophy of mind , and ethics . |
| 7 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 8 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 9 | The subject of modern poetry coming up , which it might have been expected to do , D'Arcy put forward the view that the best of the younger poets was Louis MacNeice , because he had had a classical education . |
| 10 | Comparative sociology is supposed to be the attempt to generate universal propositions on the basis of systematic comparisons of a variety of different societies , and so it might have been expected to stimulate thinking about the global system . |
| 11 | Arguing from silence is dangerous , but had he played a significant role in Cnut 's Scandinavian wars of c.1025-8 ( see below ) information about it might have been expected to survive , and so he perhaps did disappear from the scene soon after 1023 . |
| 12 | It might have been expected that strategies aimed to change the stressful circumstances themselves would be an important feature of the coping responses they uncovered . |
| 13 | Similarly , it might have been expected that " space station " would score even higher than 87% . |
| 14 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 15 | less funding than it would have been expected to have . |