Example sentences of "as we [vb mod] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a horse communicates by sound it is not using language as we would expect it to . |
| 2 | Table 4.5 shows that , as we would expect , cognitive impairment increased over the year in all samples . |
| 3 | The remains of fish are rare , as we would expect , although Evans ' excavators found fish vertebrae in a cooking pot at Knossos . |
| 4 | The right hon. Gentleman seems to be saying that , as we would expect of the British police , when a serious allegation is made , the chief constable of one force arranges for a senior officer of another to investigate the allegations , and everything about that investigation is laid bare for the public to see . |
| 5 | Alright but in any double logged mode , right , the coefficients you estimate are elasticities , so we look at the incoming elasticity , we get a measure , or we get an estimate point six eight , right , that 's a positive as we would expect suggesting that er erm textiles are a normal good , right . |
| 6 | Whereas the rate of chemical reaction between carbonic acid and calcite increases , as we would expect , with temperature , the equilibrium solubility of carbon dioxide decreases with temperature ( at 20°C it is only half that at 0°C ) . |
| 7 | If we read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ through with Tate 's commentary at our elbow , we see at any given point what he means : he has a good ear , as we might expect from his own poems ( which are however metrical , as ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ is n't ) . |
| 8 | As we might expect , partisanship was a major influence upon image ratings . |
| 9 | As we might expect , partisanship was a major influence upon image ratings , and it became an increasingly powerful influence as the election approached . |
| 10 | But The Waste Land 's sounds , rather than sights , come closest to enacting savage ritual , as we might expect of Eliot 's ‘ auditory imagination ’ . |
| 11 | But God then intervenes , not on the side of Hagar and Ishmael , as we might expect , but in support of Sarah . |
| 12 | Hunold was not executed , as we might expect , but returned to the obscurity of his monastic life . |
| 13 | However , as we might expect , the median smooth is more jagged than the mean smooth ( shown in figure 9.8 ) . |
| 14 | To Sulentic 's surprise , he has also found that the connection can be traced right into the central nucleus of NGC 43 19 — very much as we might expect if , as Arp has often suggested , high redshift objects are somehow shot out from the centres of otherwise normal galaxies . |
| 15 | In Wordsworth 's case , as we might expect , most of the paintings show him in middle or old age after he had become famous . |
| 16 | Of course , and as we might expect , despite alterations made to the weir and hatches in the river below the town , another tremendous flood had arrived on 9 November 1800 . |
| 17 | William and Mary Ann were there in all their glory , as we might expect : he with a spotted waistcoat and flamboyant flowery buttonhole , she with an expanse of fur on her head and around her shoulders . |
| 18 | Female work was heavily weighted , as we might expect , toward unskilled manual , shop and office work , traditional areas of female employment . |
| 19 | However , as we might expect , their mechanical behaviour and especially their swelling in water and the relation between their temperature and moisture content and their strength , differ only in detail and present much the same general picture . |
| 20 | This would suggest that curiosity is not a by-product of intelligence , as we might expect , but rather an essential property of life . |
| 21 | This is still as we might expect , because oxygen is a very reactive gas and was from very early days prolific in the Earth 's atmosphere , albeit probably in the form of carbon dioxide . |
| 22 | Because of this great advantage , the range of tool use among primates is , as we might expect , impressive . |
| 23 | And once they were christened , as we might expect , the ‘ Hooligans ’ were understood as an entirely unprecedented and ‘ un-British ’ phenomenon : indeed , we must allow that it was most ingenious of late Victorian England to disown the British Hooligan by giving him an ‘ Irish ’ name . |
| 24 | As we might expect , nationalism today reflects something like the crisis of the old Wilsonian-Leninist ideology and programme , which is due to its political failure and to the sharply diminished relevance of ‘ nation ’ and ‘ nation-state ’ to the political and economic structure of the globe . |
| 25 | Furthermore , as we might expect , these alternations are functional . |
| 26 | Where we have records of such official recognition within the central social organization , we find not only — as we might expect — differences between different societies but also historical differences , between different forms of a continuing society . |
| 27 | In Australia , as we might expect , there is a marsupial anteater . |
| 28 | Just as we should expect , in Chlorohydra the algae transmit themselves to the next generation by means of the hydra 's egg . |
| 29 | Many are polygynous , as we should expect , but others , like the wood-boring isopods and beetles , are monogamous . |
| 30 | My eighteen camels were all heavily loaded , as we could expect no supplies from the Danakil but meat and milk until we reached Aussa . |