Example sentences of "of [noun sg] you [vb mod] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | When considering an offer of a job in the community it is worth asking a few questions about the day to day management of the service , and the kind of support you can expect to get from your colleagues . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Of course you 'd expect to find fly ash at any period since people began burning coal in quantity . |
| 4 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 5 | It is the type of attitude you would expect from a man who cites Buck Shelford as his role model and who learned his trade in the best of all academies . |
| 6 | His terracotta-tiled house with salmon pink shutters is hardly the sort of place you would expect a wealthy actor to buy . |
| 7 | Well it was just so funny , it 's just the kind of place you 'd expect to see naughty boys , there was you sitting to the |
| 8 | Peter Robinson , a Democratic Unionist MP , said people were sceptical of ‘ the idea of rogue cops going around to take out IRA terrorists — it 's the sort of stuff you might expect to see on television with Clint Eastwood ’ . |
| 9 | The newspaper published an article alleging that material distributed from St Botolph 's has included ‘ the kind of stuff you would expect to find in a San Francisco bath-house , not a Church of England ’ , and , more broadly , that ‘ militant clerical homosexuality has now spread to a point where many of the ancient City churches are open pick-up joints . ’ |
| 10 | Those who knew him remember an amiable man , but not necessarily the sort of person you 'd expect to end up in the White House . |
| 11 | The depth of colour you can expect to achieve in one week will depend on how dark your skin is naturally . |
| 12 | ‘ Is it the kind of machinery you would expect to be ordered for the factory ? ’ |
| 13 | Its pointed head has the sort of bill you 'd expect to see on a prehistoric bird with a notch at the end like an aircraft , s radar . |
| 14 | But now her outfit , although loose and flowing , was slightly closer to the kind of garment you might expect in SW19 . |
| 15 | Not the sort of mistake you would expect from a mammal or a man . |
| 16 | In that sense , The Memory Palace is exactly the kind of show you 'd expect Art Futura to produce . |
| 17 | ( b ) Possession is exactly the sort of book you 'd expect to win the Booker Prize . |
| 18 | Item No. 1 : this winged lion of St Mark in a gondola is the typical sort of item you would expect to find attached to the top of expensive furniture . |
| 19 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At the very least NOT THE KIND OF THING YOU 'D EXPECT FROM THE FARM . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , its anorexic attractions are exactly the kind of thing you 'd expect from people who only formed a band in the first place to get off the dole . |
| 23 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |
| 24 | This is not the sort of statement you 'd expect from a man who won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the NCR ( National Cash Registers ) non-fiction prize with his first book . |
| 25 | In addition to the aerodrome forecast , the Met 's other principal offering is a regional forecast which again follows the kind of format you would expect to find in the various sources at the airfield . |
| 26 | Oh the erm if there is a sort of major beneficiary that Carpet Right because of course we owned the in them fairly decent straight throughout Currys , Dixons and some of the market people Quicksave erm , the sort of spread you 'd expect on any retail park you know . |
| 27 | His followers sold out the Hammersmith Odeon before any major label knew who he was , and more recently , when he appeared on the black talent show The 291 Club simply to present an award , he received the kind of reception you 'd expect for the ghost of Marvin Gaye . |
| 28 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 29 | I look grimy , bad-tempered , just the sort of guy you 'd expect to find hiding in a woodpile in Deptford when there 's trouble about . |