Example sentences of "one [vb mod] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of any additional income that is saved ( the marginal propensity to save ) will tend to vary according to the tastes and preferences of the individual , and one might expect the proportion that is saved to increase as income increases . |
| 2 | One might expect the fluctuations that are implied by quantum mechanics to give a cosmological constant that is very large . |
| 3 | In caricatures of the Coase-Williamson view , one might expect the firm to grow without limit , in the absence of the costs of overburdening bureaucracy . |
| 4 | As one might expect the RAF is well represented in its 75th anniversary year . |
| 5 | One might expect the ad valorem duties to have risen with increasing prices . |
| 6 | Furthermore , of course , if the government did possess an important informational advantage there would be a strong incentive for the private sector to obtain the same information , so one might expect the advantage to be gradually eroded . |
| 7 | On analogy with subject access in social services and housing one might expect the governors to seek the consent of the person compiling the report and for such consent normally to be forthcoming since otherwise the record may clearly be incomplete . |
| 8 | Like the values for Young 's modulus or stiffness , the figures vary a great deal between different substances , but then , so do the strengths of the chemical bonds within them and one might expect the engineering strengths to be proportional to the strengths of the chemical bonds . |
| 9 | Given the uncertainty that surrounds the entitlement to means-tested benefits , one might expect the individuals to attach different weights to different components of the total income in the optimisation ( Jenkins and Millar , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | No one could expect the blessing of the Most High for such pursuits . |
| 11 | For both these reasons , therefore , one would expect the transactions demand to be a function of money incomes . |
| 12 | In view of this , one would expect the breed to have firmly established itself long ago . |
| 13 | In that case , one would expect the players to have little trouble in arriving at the result they both desire — mutual disarmament . |
| 14 | In a between-species cross , in which there is even greater dissimilarity between the antigens , one would expect the rejection to be even more axiomatic , but the immunological evidence is difficult to interpret . |
| 15 | Obviously , since mating itself takes place mainly on the one night , and the development period is so compressed , one would expect the toadlets to emerge more or less together . |
| 16 | Normally , one would expect the spokespeople for industry bodies to ‘ talk up ’ their respective industries . |
| 17 | Whereas one would expect the lexicon to be organised in a way that facilitates the access of items , one would expect working memory to be organised in a way that facilitated the discrimination of competing hypotheses . |
| 18 | Thus , one would expect the use of the maps to be slower than the use of routines with the human performance being more versatile but less predictable . |
| 19 | According to table 6.2 , nearly a third of the words are still uniquely identifiable , and one would expect the number to be considerably greater under a mid-class representation . |
| 20 | Normally , however , one would expect the transport police to be responsible , but it is possible for other police officers to conduct tests . |
| 21 | Despite these considerations many economists believe that the tendency of prices to remain unchanged over several periods suggests strongly that they are not in equilibrium , as one would expect the equilibrium price to have changed over that interval . |
| 22 | If only ten per cent or less of the Protestant population were engaged in farming , one would expect the DUP to reduce its interest in farmers . |
| 23 | As markets and technology evolve , one would expect the nature of transactions to change and present new configurations of administrative problems . [ … ] |
| 24 | These mostly involved piecemeal or rounding-off development in existing settlements or small groups of houses , but it nevertheless indicates a surprising flexibility in the application of policy even in those areas where one would expect the policy to be strongly applied . |
| 25 | One would expect the centroids of both sources to be coincident unless Sgr A marked a black hole of much more moderate mass . |
| 26 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |
| 27 | Where such factors are present one would expect the crime to attract not only profit-maximising individuals but also profit-maximising firms . |