Example sentences of "would [be] expected [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 2 | If so , the conductivity of the rock at high pressures would be expected to mirror that of carbon . |
| 3 | ‘ If nitrate does , indirectly , cause cancer , it will be the long-term average that matters and the effect of any increase in cancer rates would be expected to take many years to become apparent … |
| 4 | Pools with the detritus would be expected to harbour more fish , but then predation from the belted kingfisher , Ceryle alcyon , increases . |
| 5 | If this was the case new reports would be expected to include fewer recent infections and the average age of people with newly diagnosed HIV infection and the proportion symptomatic at the time of the HIV-1 test would rise . |
| 6 | It is clear that established units ( i.e. those with established senses ) are more central than unestablished ones : an ideal dictionary would be expected to define all the established senses within each lexeme . |
| 7 | In our work , however , the carbon-bearing granulite samples have a higher porosity ( Table 1 ) and friable nature , and would be expected to lose much of their porosity , with associated loss of conductivity , when even small pressures are applied . |
| 8 | In most cases a man earning £300 per week would be expected to spend more than the man earning £100 per week , and so the transactions demand should be larger for the former . |
| 9 | People may , for example , be referred by general practitioners , who would be expected to provide any relevant information . |
| 10 | Children with health or developmental problems may need a higher standard of parental care and a reasonable parent would be expected to provide this . |
| 11 | A local authority would be expected to offer these services before seeking an order unless it had clear evidence that the parents would be unwilling or incapable of making use of them . |
| 12 | However , you would be expected to show some knowledge of , and interest in the affairs of the authority in question and of the issues affecting local government generally . |