Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Therefore , we must expect some major changes in that region in the coming years and be prepared for anything that might arise as a result . |
| 32 | Having been nurtured in this way and observed adult males receiving the same treatment , boys may expect similar preferential treatment and where it is not offered automatically , demand it as a right . |
| 33 | Generally , one may expect that , for a combination of gravitational and electromagnetic waves , a curvature singularity in region IV will usually occur . |
| 34 | Right , and we may , we may expect that to be the case , you know , clothes do n't have , textiles do n't have many substitutes . |
| 35 | There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) . |
| 36 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 37 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 38 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 39 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 40 | As Foresman ( 1986 ) suggests , we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role . |
| 41 | Accepting even a weak Whorfian view that language used influences thought and representation to some degree , then one might expect great differences in the way that deaf people structure information . |
| 42 | We might expect such a king to have been beatified upon his death ( his ancestor had been St Arnulf ) but Charles ' indifference to Christian morality prevented this . |
| 43 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 44 | Having seen that there is an a priori case for some governmental interference , we will pass on in chapter 3 to applications of the theory of the firm to regulated situations — how we might expect such firms to behave . |
| 45 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 46 | We might expect such a recognition to be especially difficult in strong cultures , where investment of self in the work of the firm is most profound . |
| 47 | Henry Fairweather , group personnel and services director , acknowledges that most of its female managers are in areas one might expect such as marketing , information services and personnel . |
| 48 | He was referring to ‘ prime ’ and ‘ premium ’ sausages in which you might expect leaner meat , less filler material , or less fat . |
| 49 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 50 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 51 | This is usually a result of family and marriage ties and so an employer might expect young unattached female staff to be more willing to relocate than married women . |
| 52 | One might expect that with such a large concentration of high-density , highly pressured molecules , the star formation rate at the centre would be significantly higher than that in the disk . |
| 53 | One might expect that being a chant leader afforded a number of privileges within the group , but this in fact was not the case . |
| 54 | If ideology reflects economic organization , then one might expect that modern consciousness should contain its universalistic and its particularistic common-places . |
| 55 | If stars could shrink to as small as ten or twenty miles across to become neutron stars , one might expect that other stars could shrink even further to become black holes . |
| 56 | We might expect that aggressive fighting would be common in nature , because natural selection will favour the most successful animals in competition , and the strongest animals are probably the most successful in fights . |
| 57 | If the DNA-dependent phosphorylation of c-Jun is of physiological significance then one might expect that the presence of Jun binding sites ( FSEs ; refs. 24 and 25 ) within the activating DNA would increase kinase efficiency . |
| 58 | Because three-quarters of women with gonorrhoea will have the infection in the urethra , one might expect urethral discharge to be a common finding in infected women . |
| 59 | If true , we might expect male peeking rates to increase as the number of females in the flock increase . |
| 60 | With such differences in the quantity and quality of mosaics one might expect different levels of stylistic affinity — and combinations of these levels — to be prominent . |