Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 2 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 3 | Given that the net flow of support is normally from older to younger generations , we should expect support in this direction to be more extensive . |
| 4 | If you live here you should expect country noises . ’ |
| 5 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 6 | Power was indeed divided , in such a way as to place restraints upon popularly elected assemblies ; and it was the view of Hamilton that a representative democracy avoided the dangers clearly inherent in " simple democracy " : When the deliberative or judicial powers are vested wholly or partly in the collective body of the people , you must expect error , confusion and instability . |
| 7 | Indeed , oftentimes a doctor may expect trust without himself reciprocating , in that , for example , he will choose not to tell his patient certain facts , on the paternalistic premiss that the patient is better off not knowing . |
| 8 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 9 | You may expect direction and advice which will not be forthcoming . |
| 10 | Some sub-contractors , particularly when paid on the lump or a daywork basis , may expect payment on a Friday , up to and including that day , but from the builder 's point of view it is preferable to keep a week in hand . |
| 11 | He walked towards it , habit making him look about him , as if , even here , he might expect attack . |
| 12 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 13 | If he backed his superior , Marshal Yazov , and the putschists , he might expect promotion ; but he would still be far from the top . |
| 14 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 15 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 16 | You might expect air conditioning , leather seats and at least a stereo when you pay over £50,000 for a car , but not if it 's a Mercedes you 're buying . |
| 17 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 18 | We might expect speaker B to be a little confused about how these elements relate to the preceding conversation . |
| 19 | Explain why you might expect security betas to change over time . |
| 20 | The estimate for the two albums is £150,000–200,000 , and one might expect interest to be shown by an Italian State collection such as the Museo degli Argenti in Florence . |
| 21 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |
| 22 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |
| 23 | In view of the lengthy discussions on the nature of the deaf community , one might expect language attitude effects in learning sign language . |
| 24 | Neither semantics nor logic requires V P structure , a priori , that is there 's no particular reason why you 'd expect verb phrase structuring in particular from either of those two enterprises , because either could get by with er either the flat structure Florence teased Dougal , that 's the structure in T three three separate constituents , or teased Florence Dougal where teased is one constituent and Florence Dougal is another which is the way we most standardly do it calculus and that works fine . |
| 25 | He was not prepared to preach to the British — ‘ I do n't really know too much about them ’ — but he did say that no one could expect success without putting in a great deal of hard work . |
| 26 | The Christians were beholden to the Syrians for this service — for the moment at least — and thus the Syrians could expect compliance from them . |
| 27 | The parishioner could expect relief " in sickness , infirmity and in old age , in unemployment or inadequate wages " . |
| 28 | The general condition was extremely dangerous and one could expect difficulty in trying to gain any access as the stairway was so derelict . |
| 29 | SIR ANTHONY Hidden QC has omitted one place to lay the blame for the Clapham disaster — the law lords who decided in the ‘ Fares Fair ’ case that an ‘ economic ’ transport system was one that made a profit or broke even on fares charged , rather than one that could expect support from ratepayers or taxpayers . |
| 30 | But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society . |