Example sentences of "you would expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder .
2 Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway .
3 And I will have a piece of tape which says , ‘ Well yes of course you would expect the Chairman of the County Council to get food poisoning in this particular restaurant because we have prosecuted him three times .
4 In fact the more positive one is , the more positive you would expect the other to be .
5 If they 're negatively correlated , then you would expect the Z score for one to be positive and the other to be negative , or negative and positive .
6 ‘ Well , you would expect the majority of modules to be certificated successfully because they are being run by professional staff in centres which have been validated — in other words the centre 's resources , staff and support systems have been found to be adequate to run each module .
7 When you can not discover the length of the cone it is best to err on the generous side whilst using your previous experience to decide how many cones you would expect the garment to take .
8 When you can not discover the length on the cone it is best to err on the generous side whilst using your previous experience to decide how many cones you would expect the garment to take .
9 ‘ From this trading account , you would expect the business as a whole to have made a thumping loss for the year …
10 You would expect the tropics to support more life than the high latitudes , simply because they receive more solar energy .
11 You would expect the governments of most democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect ; but no .
12 Quite apart from the inevitable pay rises , you would expect the Brasserie 's wages to be a bit up on L'Auberge 's since city centre rates are likely to be higher .
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