Example sentences of "one [vb mod] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accepting even a weak Whorfian view that language used influences thought and representation to some degree , then one might expect great differences in the way that deaf people structure information . |
| 2 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 3 | Because three-quarters of women with gonorrhoea will have the infection in the urethra , one might expect urethral discharge to be a common finding in infected women . |
| 4 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 5 | While one might expect eventual decisions to be made purely on the merits of the case , earlier evidence indicates that some objections are more likely to succeed in influencing decision-makers than others . |
| 6 | Where both husband and wife have substantial commitments to the job world , one might expect domestic responsibilities to be shared . |
| 7 | With such differences in the quantity and quality of mosaics one might expect different levels of stylistic affinity — and combinations of these levels — to be prominent . |
| 8 | Because of transport costs one might expect heavy building materials , such as cement , to be non-traded . |
| 9 | Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive . |
| 10 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 11 | Although the blood groups of the parents are almost certainly incompatible , one would expect diseased foals to be very exceptional because the first offspring is rarely affected . |
| 12 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 13 | One would expect existing sentence patterns to be stabilised in use , and to be only minimally disturbed upon being combined to form more complex syntactic units . |
| 14 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 15 | If the contention of Pollak and others is correct that the roles of women reduce the public display of deviance , then it is indeed in such ‘ private ’ areas that one would expect female forms of deviance to be located . |
| 16 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
| 17 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 18 | One would expect self-selected leisure activities to be different from and complementary to those at work . |