Example sentences of "we might expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the experiment was to hold a couple of quizzes at the time of year when we might expect problems with speakers and audience having to travel in bad weather . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We might expect speaker B to be a little confused about how these elements relate to the preceding conversation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 6 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |
| 7 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |