Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [noun] " 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 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 3 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 4 | Given that the net flow of support is normally from older to younger generations , we should expect support in this direction to be more extensive . |
| 5 | If you live here you should expect country noises . ’ |
| 6 | So we should expect readers of different papers to be influenced in different directions depending upon the content of their own particular papers . |
| 7 | The correspondence principle states that we should expect wages to be rising more rapidly the larger is X i . |
| 8 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Power was indeed divided , in such a way as to place restraints upon popularly elected assemblies ; and it was the view of Hamilton that a representative democracy avoided the dangers clearly inherent in " simple democracy " : When the deliberative or judicial powers are vested wholly or partly in the collective body of the people , you must expect error , confusion and instability . |
| 11 | We must expect contractors to take care of all operations ON A project including : — |
| 12 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
| 13 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
| 14 | ‘ If you will make such a mystery man of yourself , ’ Robbie retorted , ‘ you must expect people to be curious . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Landlords of private accommodation may expect rents paid throughout the vacations even if you 're not resident . |
| 17 | Indeed , oftentimes a doctor may expect trust without himself reciprocating , in that , for example , he will choose not to tell his patient certain facts , on the paternalistic premiss that the patient is better off not knowing . |
| 18 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 19 | You may expect direction and advice which will not be forthcoming . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some sub-contractors , particularly when paid on the lump or a daywork basis , may expect payment on a Friday , up to and including that day , but from the builder 's point of view it is preferable to keep a week in hand . |
| 23 | He walked towards it , habit making him look about him , as if , even here , he might expect attack . |
| 24 | You might expect Ashley Newton to agree with Clarke . |
| 25 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 26 | If he backed his superior , Marshal Yazov , and the putschists , he might expect promotion ; but he would still be far from the top . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
| 30 | This seems unlikely , however , because one might expect females to be just as much in need of protection as males . |