Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect this " in BNC.
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1 | Without bitterness , but with five years ' experience , Lord Wilson said yesterday : ‘ No Governor should expect this job to be a bed of roses or to get plaudits or easy popularity . |
2 | Nobody should expect this sleeping dog to lie . |
3 | As we said in section 2.3 , we should expect this to reduce the cost and increase the volume of lending and borrowing with possible consequences for both the balance between consumption and saving and the level of aggregate demand . |
4 | The attitude that ‘ you must expect this at your age ’ is something that is heard all too often . |
5 | One must expect this and while we are trying to understand fully the development of dune shapes and dune systems , it is necessary that researchers should classify dunes on a descriptive basis . |
6 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
7 | One might expect this because convergent evolution would lead to similar mechanisms to carry out similar functions . |
8 | One might expect this to include advisory visits , aid with the development of study skills and so on , and to some extent this does happen . |
9 | Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day . |
10 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
11 | Ministers of state , great noblemen , and royal favourites could expect this as a matter of course . |
12 | Nicholson wondered , if the snow came , what he could expect this time . |
13 | One would expect this to occur most readily when the anode and cathode spacing was small . |
14 | Make a special note of anything that is unexpected such as a sore throat that is better for swallowing solid food — normally one would expect this to make it worse . |
15 | Arguably the most majestic covering was black Utrecht velvet ( Col. 15 ) ; Nelson 's 1806 coffin , furnished by Messrs France of London , with its gilt bronze fittings on padded velvet , was particularly sumptuous ( Col. 16 ) , but one would expect this of the crown undertaker 's work . |
16 | Of course , you get what you pay for , and no-one in his right mind would expect this garment to wear or wash as long , or as well as , a fleece jacket of double the price . |
17 | One would expect this to occur in natural acquisition situations , such that adults ' and children 's interaction with others can be compared . |
18 | If Protestantism was more Conducive than Catholicism to the expansion of science , one would expect this to manifest itself in a greater receptivity toward new and controversial ideas . |
19 | Now all retinal ganglion cells have , somewhere within the visual field , a region called the receptive field where light causes a change in the number of impulses , and as you would expect this region is situated within the field of view of the eye at the position where a light spot illuminates the retina underlying the ganglion cell . |
20 | One would expect this large amount of positive feed-back to lead to instability : as soon as the input is strong enough to excite one or two neurons , one would expect these to feed back on to others and initiate an explosive chain reaction . |
21 | You would expect this to shock her , and it does . |
22 | ‘ It is the last place you would expect this kind of thing to happen . |
23 | Most lay witnesses will expect this in any event and can see why they are necessary , if only to facilitate time off work and the payment of expenses . |
24 | Are in receipt of a minimum annual income of £10,000 including guaranteed bonuses etc. , and can expect this to rise significantly as your career develops . |
25 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
26 | So we can expect this summer , in your view we can expect to see as many tourists from overseas as we normally do . |