Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] expected [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My objection was not to discussion of the subject , but to the refusal of those who might be expected to be clear and able spokesmen of the Church to commit themselves to a firm position on right and wrong . |
| 32 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 33 | Presumably , it must include the audience that might be expected to be subjected to the words or material , as well as the audience who were actually present . |
| 34 | The weight of a kibble of ore would depend upon the size and richness of its contents but might be expected to be around 175 lb. , whilst a quintal was one cwt . |
| 35 | " Now why is the Ingard group paying Osnafeld £300,000 when , if our other information is correct , Varsov , or Osnafeld on behalf of Varsov , might be expected to be paying Ingard And what does Varsov want with land on Foulness ? |
| 36 | The Heather he had known on Rhodes was an uncomplicated and instantly likeable young woman : a little gauche perhaps , a little unsure of herself , but essentially only what she might be expected to be . |
| 37 | The contemporary barrow groups of such valley settlements might be expected to be sited on the hills , where they do indeed survive in large numbers . |
| 38 | A house which has been associated with such dramatic deeds might be expected to be broodingly sinister , but in fact Huntingtower is a delightful example of a castle which was progressively adapted to become a fine residence . |
| 39 | Meetings therefore always took place at five-thirty in the evening , a time when a politician , a lawyer or a captain of industry might be expected to be able to get away from his office for an important private occasion . |
| 40 | She liked the taste of his mouth , the feel of his tongue caressing hers , but she did not feel threatened by the thought that she might be expected to ‘ go all the way ’ like some poor teenager on a heavy date . |
| 41 | We were interested to examine the adhesive properties of E coli which we had isolated in studies of the flora closely associated with the rectal mucosa , a flora in which the expression of adhesins and other adhesion associated characteristics might be expected to be favoured or prerequisite , and to compare our results with those reported for faecal isolates . |
| 42 | Given also the evidence of the weak performance of younger students with more marginal traditional qualifications , it seems likely that if these students gained entry to higher education on the basis of non-traditional qualifications that their success rates might be expected to be more limited . |
| 43 | This is especially likely to be the case with short essays and exam answers , where you clearly can not be expected to be " original " in the sense in which a researcher or expert in the field might be expected to be . |
| 44 | In a moderately seasonal environment , in which several species produce lleshy fruits , there might be expected to be selection for a particular species to fruit out of step with the others , and thereby avoid competition with other species for dispersers . |
| 45 | Erm that has been a matter of serious discussion here and I know with some of the local authorities , and the fact of the matter is sir that we feel that if we look at the agricultural land quality of this county , if you were to have a criteria based policy which included the requirement that strategic sites should avoid good quality agricultural land erm you have n't got a policy at all because this is a county which has mostly its territory covered by good quality agricultural land especially in those parts of this county where strategic development might be expected to actually happen . |
| 46 | For some reason , however , the pachyderms do not fit this picture — both elephants and rhinos exhibit far more complex personalities with much higher intelligence than might be expected for animals with their style of feeding . |
| 47 | That is to say , hymns of praise are sung , especially to mothers , but the tangible rewards which might be expected for work of considerable social significance are not available . |
| 48 | Only in per capita wealth did the town have a slight edge , and then perhaps less decisively than might be expected for so important a centre . |
| 49 | Sharing a common modality may be enough to produce generalization decrement and thus , according to the account presented above , an overshadowing effect might be expected with these stimuli . |
| 50 | A US $/DFL; option is listed but volumes are disappointing , as might be expected with the Netherlands in the Exchange Rate Mechanism and liquid D-mark contracts available in Chicago and Philadelphia . |
| 51 | Price and payment for shares As might be expected with an authority to make market purchases , it is not necessary to stipulate a fixed price in the authorising resolution . |
| 52 | As in the Z2 Carbonate , a belt of good porosity might be expected at the edge of the platform where a continuous sequence of oolites is though to be present . |
| 53 | And , as is often the case in the media , literary texts have the habit of not turning out to mean what might be expected at first sight . |
| 54 | Isolation , rejection , dishonour and disrespect might be expected at different times . |
| 55 | Although the Club was for Brakspear 's an outlet for their products without many responsibility of property up-keep , their generosity was far in excess of what might be expected on strictly commercial terms and doubtless when their relationship and arrangements were terminated in 1983 , the Club 's former President , John Chalcraft , also the Brewery 's retired Managing Director , must have felt some regret . |
| 56 | Eighteenth-century observers often argued that naval battles between opponents of more or less equal strength were almost certain to be indecisive , that naval warfare was by its nature unlikely to produce victories of the kind which might be expected on land . |
| 57 | Research done in Liverpool — albeit before the Partnerships — ( Nabarro and McDonald , 1978 ) , indicates that the inner areas received less than might be expected considering their total population . |
| 58 | A hyponym , being more specific in sense than its superordinates , might be expected as a result to be more fastidious in respect of its lexical companions ; and thus the normal contexts of a hyponym might reasonably be expected to constitute a sub-set of the normal contexts of a superordinate . |
| 59 | The style and the political and military viewpoints of Hajo Herrmann are what might be expected from one who was an officer cadet in the German army of 1934 , a founder member of the Condor Legion in Spain , a proposer of suicidal ramming of Allied bombers and a confidant of Herrmann Goering . |
| 60 | She had already gathered that her new employer was extremely well connected and , as might be expected from a woman of her standing , required absolute discretion of her staff and the encouragement of her children in a properly modest attitude to the family 's privileged position . |