Example sentences of "one [modal v] expect [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 3 | If , however , the vertical axis is defined as attainable competitive strength , then one might expect most investment to take place in the top left corner . |
| 4 | Examples are too numerous to list , but a particularly telling one from members of our own profession , where one might expect some awareness , can serve . |
| 5 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 6 | Because of transport costs one might expect heavy building materials , such as cement , to be non-traded . |
| 7 | One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem . |
| 8 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 9 | Erm I , I just get this feeling , you know one would expect that year eleven is a reasonable way of working out what the , the sort of workload is , and you would think that special needs would actually be something that really related quite nicely |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I use the term " child " here in contradistinction to " parent " — not all incest involves juveniles — but one would expect any effect to be more marked the younger the child concerned . |
| 12 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
| 13 | Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none . |
| 14 | Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none . |
| 15 | If the explanation of a high standards and routines specification as symptomatic of the desire to be satisfied is correct , one would expect some relationship between this measure and answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question . |
| 16 | One would expect self-selected leisure activities to be different from and complementary to those at work . |