Example sentences of "we might expect [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | We might expect a clear relationship , for example , between the number of school children and the amount of spending on education . |
3 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |