Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might expect Ashley Newton to agree with Clarke . |
| 2 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 3 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 4 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 5 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 6 | Men 's movement gurus might expect Lowe to turn on Mom , but he does n't . |
| 7 | I , I , well I am afraid that the people who have been audited are exactly the people , I mean you would expect Ian and Tanya certainly to be good , you 'd expect Philip to be good would n't you and Susannah , and Lyn , perhaps less so . |
| 8 | In that sense , The Memory Palace is exactly the kind of show you 'd expect Art Futura to produce . |
| 9 | I 'd expect Tracy would want one , do n't you queue up |
| 10 | Cos if it was as long as three hours , then I 'd expect Julie would have had to program them in for it would n't she . |
| 11 | ‘ And it fits : you 'd expect Cyril to be puking his heart out when they got home . |
| 12 | Usually when a well-deserving photographer has a punch thrown at him by a celebrity , nobody bats an eyelid — unless the fist belongs to Sean Penn — indeed everybody used to expect Sinatra to take a swing . |
| 13 | It was not what one would expect Aunt Margaret to have chosen for herself . |
| 14 | Erm and you would expect Stan to with his with him facing goal to have a go . |
| 15 | We would expect Linotype to develop the product along the lines of their traditional high quality typography business and there is no guarantee that the product will remain compatible with its original version . |
| 16 | I , I , well I am afraid that the people who have been audited are exactly the people , I mean you would expect Ian and Tanya certainly to be good , you 'd expect Philip to be good would n't you and Susannah , and Lyn , perhaps less so . |
| 17 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 18 | We would expect Mrs Reynolds 's to be present . |
| 19 | The letter adds : ‘ In four years ’ time we would expect Middlesbrough to have achieved noticeable progress on the path to sustainable development . |
| 20 | In return for the risk we undertake , which clearly a contingency fee basis gives rise to , I would expect KPMG Peat Marwick be appointed auditors to the Group and to any Newco , on the understanding that our fee will be consistent with market rates and with the audit fee which the target has borne . |
| 21 | In sum , we would expect Scotland 's share to amount to some 10.66 per cent , the same percentage of UK Government expenditure as currently received by the Scottish Office . |
| 22 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 23 | But Dennis Oliver , the man leading the MCC rebels in their bid to get the vote of no confidence at next month 's meeting of all 17,500 MCC members was equally defiant , saying : ‘ We are going ahead full steam with our campaign , and if we win the vote I would expect Dexter and the selectors to resign . ’ |
| 24 | I mean I would n't , would n't expect , I would expect Paula |
| 25 | I would expect Jamie or Gary to be better matches . ’ |
| 26 | ( 1 ) incomplete adaptation — since not all features of JC would be sufficiently salient to be " noticeable " for the purposes of adaptation , some of these would " slip through " and would fail to be adapted ( 2 ) inconsistency — due to possible learning or memory constraints , or perhaps for other reasons not well understood , some adaptations would be made haphazardly , so that the same item might appear sometimes in its LE variant , sometimes in its JC form ( 3 ) misadaptation — where the systems of JC and LE differ in such a way that adapting correctly requires recognising a contrast that exists in JC but not in LE , we would expect LE speakers to " get it wrong " some of the time , creating forms which are neither the target ( JC ) nor LE . |
| 27 | This summer , Mr Clarke will expect Michael Portillo , the Treasury secretary and hatchet-man , and Peter Lilley , the social-security secretary , to set about planning the cuts , along with a drastic revamping of the welfare system . |
| 28 | However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness . |
| 29 | After that , you can expect Leeds mail to come surging down the wires to your computer every day of the week , and aim to join in the talk whenever you can . |
| 30 | I need not here emphasize the point that nobody can expect Polybius to study the dynamics of Roman imperialism . |