Example sentences of "one [modal v] expect [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the reading content of the recommended book for Class 2 in Sierra Leone which I saw being used with very young children in Freetown schools is far above the average reading level one might expect for six-year-olds in London who speak English , not Creole , at home . |
| 2 | The resultant shown in the diagram is the sort that one might expect in Britain , which is an area of dominant westerlies . |
| 3 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 4 | Let us now return to consider the kind of assistance one might expect from computers in relation to the particular areas of personnel work referred to earlier . |
| 5 | As one might expect from John Major , he drank only mineral water in 1990 , his one stint with the budget box . |
| 6 | And they had fought for their country in 1939 when the Irish Republic remained neutral which was , after all , just what one could expect of rebels who had taken advantage of Britain 's involvement in the First World War to stage the 1916 Easter Rising . |
| 7 | This is not the sort of complaint one would expect after years in which Downing Street was running riot by appointing one maverick after another . |
| 8 | It is , cynics might say , exactly the conclusion one would expect from scientists in the pay of the CEGB . |
| 9 | The Outer Kingdoms are more worldly as one would expect from nations that have to deal with marauding Norse and Dark Elf raiders . |
| 10 | The story exhibits just the type of learning and experimentation that one would expect from incrementalism , except that , in the Honda case , the experiments were being conducted for real , not just in the executives ' minds prior to decision , and the process did not seem all that logical . |
| 11 | The performable format of Dame Sirith , however , is not what one would expect in light of the French tradition . |