Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect the " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think ye should expect the teacher to do everything .
2 We should expect the mass-selling tabloid press to have a stronger influence on public attitudes and choices than on public information and perceptions .
3 Given our findings on perceptions we should expect the press to have more influence than television on attitudes .
4 Students should expect the Government to meet living costs , but not to cough up for the extra beer and nightclubbing which Richard regards as an important part of student life .
5 History suggests that Hongkong Bank should expect the worst after 1997 ; it lost all but one of its 33 branches in mainland China in 1949 .
6 So the bacterial genes share a common destiny with their host 's genes , and in my interpretation we should expect the bacteria to cooperate with their beetles in all aspects of life .
7 But having been called and commissioned , we should expect the programme to take shape .
8 If we now think about a crack proceeding inwards from the surface of a stressed material ( Figure 1 ) we should expect the area of material in which the strain is relaxed to correspond roughly to the two shaded triangles .
9 The Christians should expect the indwelling Spirit to make a difference .
10 Hence we should expect the Andrade equation to hold for small temperature increments only .
11 In short , we should expect the demand for bank lending to vary inversely with the rate of interest charged .
12 The majority voting equilibrium is then the public goods quantity demanded by the person with median income , and — if tastes are unchanged — we should expect the level of spending to vary with median income .
13 ‘ With you , one should expect the unexpected .
14 These days , we should expect the drivers of all trains to have two-way communication at all times with the signal box and those who are in control of the track .
15 Probably it should have been , as this is a use which the producer should expect the product to be put to .
16 ‘ In the public service you must expect the clock to go somewhat slower than in any other organisation .
17 As Barr et al ( 1989 ) put it , ‘ We must expect the new independent hospitals to act like any profit-maximising firm .
18 Clearly the ornithologist must expect the evolution of agriculture to continue , and its most likely result will be to produce a much more uniform habitat with consequently a much less varied bird population than at present , composed of a comparatively few widespread and adaptable species .
19 For such a duty to be imposed , however , the corporation must expect the outsider to keep the disclosed nonpublic information confidential , and the relationship must at least must imply such a duty .
20 In a contested bid , an offeror which offers consideration shares must expect the target 's board to turn its attention to the offeror 's financial condition and performance in an effort to dissuade shareholders from accepting the offer .
21 Latham ( who went on to prepare the Revised Medieval Latin Word List for the British Academy ) wrote in the Amateur Historian Vol.1 , No.11 , p.332 : ‘ The student who strays from the beaten track in the realm of Medieval Latin may expect the trials and joys of the pioneer .
22 These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us .
23 Perhaps , as with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , this is where we may expect the next rifting , though I doubt if it will happen soon enough to substantiate my idea .
24 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 .
25 Equally one might expect the full-time paid CAB worker , who normally eschews the middle-class volunteer , to cheer the broadening of the CAB volunteer base .
26 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 .
27 You might expect the creator of such grisly images to be a bit of a ghoul himself but Hutson is a small , chirpy bloke who lives with wife Belinda in a new , mock-Tudor Bovis home in Milton Keynes , listens to heavy metal music and supports Liverpool .
28 Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution .
29 All we have to do is to find out what the brains of our common ancestors looked like to find out how similar we might expect the brains of mammals to be .
30 Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR .
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