Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | All we can say is that ceteris paribus we should expect consequences of these kinds and then look at specific developments which would seem to illustrate the possibilities . |
2 | So we should expect readers of different papers to be influenced in different directions depending upon the content of their own particular papers . |
3 | The correspondence principle states that we should expect wages to be rising more rapidly the larger is X i . |
4 | Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly . |
5 | We must expect contractors to take care of all operations ON A project including : — |
6 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
7 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
8 | Given that it seems clear that we may expect students who are well qualified in traditional terms to achieve relatively high levels of academic achievement , an important measure of success may be the extent to which institutions are able to take students who are not well qualified traditionally and achieve relatively high success rates with these students . |
9 | Landlords of private accommodation may expect rents paid throughout the vacations even if you 're not resident . |
10 | Suppose we wish to put a straight line unc through the following set of experimental points : unc Suppose further that , in view of the experimental method , we may expect errors in f to be proportional to t . |
11 | we may expect continuations to have to do with plumbing , in which the plumber is offering advice to Mary , and so they are playing different roles . |
12 | We might expect students of dance or music to engage in practical activities , but their theoretical studies are , by and large , directly related to those activities . |
13 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
14 | This seems unlikely , however , because one might expect females to be just as much in need of protection as males . |
15 | Part of the experiment was to hold a couple of quizzes at the time of year when we might expect problems with speakers and audience having to travel in bad weather . |
16 | It was a rough grey face , full of rifts and clefts and fissures , out of which , someone said , you might expect lichens to grow . |
17 | One might expect politicians to talk fast and academics endorsing the view that the European Community is something so new and sui generis that the age old problems of the rivalry between peoples and states can be overcome through it . |
18 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
19 | You might expect leopards to keep away from forest tracks frequented by humans but they often use them for preference . |
20 | I do n't want to come here too often , but I 'll expect messages from you in the usual way . |
21 | I 'll expect results . ’ |
22 | If Bartlett 's ( 1932 ) original view is correct we ought to expect changes in the pattern of recall of events . |
23 | Just as we could , perhaps , calculate the weight of the largest insect which could walk on a given liquid , so we can use these concepts to calculate how strong we ought to expect materials to be . |
24 | So this is the kind of figure I 'd expect machines of this class to equal or better . |
25 | ‘ If I 'd got engaged to anybody else , any of these young girls you cite , they 'd expect things from me I 'm not prepared to give — ’ |
26 | For greater detail , they would have to rely on a chain of fast horses aided by signals , and no one could expect miracles . |
27 | So , taking account of the polonium , local people relying mainly on local milk , meat and vegetables could expect doses over a period of a couple of years of about 4 to 15 rems ; more incidentally , than people at Hiroshima within 2 km of the bomb . |
28 | Putting them to one side from the ordinary trainee where you could expect jobs and N V Q's to be the outcome , and for them to be treated as a special case . |
29 | At very high temperatures , particles would be moving around so fast that they could escape any attraction toward each other due to nuclear or electromagnetic forces , but as they cooled off one would expect particles that attract each other to start to clump together . |
30 | We would expect regulations to be drawn up under those headings in the hope that the privatised companies would be obliged to act upon them . |