Example sentences of "have expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can not have expected such a satisfactory development for the World at such a late stage in the debate . ’ |
| 2 | Actually , not one of its members is a day over 50 ( although all of them are coming close ) but you might reasonably have expected age to leave Daltrey , Townshend , and Entwistle looking worse than well-travelled . |
| 3 | In the worst possible case , that would slice A$250m off the result for this year , and nobody could have expected him to make up that sort of ground . |
| 4 | ‘ After the events in Leipzig and other cities I would have expected more , ’ said another . |
| 5 | He failed , however , to get the rapturous reception he may have expected from his chief apologist on the international scene . |
| 6 | We might have expected that people would give particularly low ratings to sources they described as biased but there was little evidence of any such reaction . |
| 7 | We might have expected that those who alleged bias on television or in their paper would be reluctant to describe that source as useful but there was little evidence of any such reaction . |
| 8 | And when I was lucky enough to enjoy some rare hot weather my feet stayed as cool as I could have expected . |
| 9 | It was astonishment that anybody could have expected anything else and consequently at the paroxysms of indignation which Government and opposition , press and public , exhibited . |
| 10 | At independence , the two were relatively young — Mboya in his early thirties , and Odinga in his forties — and could have expected to be considered as candidates for the presidency in the years to come . |
| 11 | My father would have expected an abject apology from me , I assure you , before he condescended to write . ’ |
| 12 | One might have expected the intense difficulties confronting British film producers to stimulate discussion ; instead it seems to have narrowed their perspective . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't have expected claims to become due before 2005 or 2010 , so the payment has been accelerated . ’ |
| 14 | Contrary to persistent rumour , Kylie Minogue 's first film , The Delinquents ( Warner West End , 12 , from Boxing Day ) is not the flaccid cods-up we might have expected . |
| 15 | Since all three have been to Tokyo and back last weekend to help Milan win the World Club Championship , they might have expected to be rested . |
| 16 | Since all three have been to Tokyo and back last weekend to help Milan win the World Club Championship , they might have expected to be rested . |
| 17 | He found his account , as he would have expected , consistent , and considered the man carefully as he did so . |
| 18 | I agree , she would not normally have expected the remainder to fall in and be useful to her , but of course if she had had children , it would have been valuable to them . ’ |
| 19 | The study compared what each type of creditor — holders of debt , preference shares and equity — would have expected to get if strict legal priority had been applied with what they actually got . |
| 20 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 21 | We should not have expected to see them there if we went again . |
| 22 | You might have expected a howl of derision to greet this cry , but it did not come . |
| 23 | Jane was nearly knocked over by his aftershave , then noted all the details she would have expected : his exactly filled expensive/cheapo suit , his red tie and pocket handkerchief , his shiny shoes , the leather folded at an angle to form a point , the artificial orchids on his desk , and she remembered the untidy Bin and faded jeans with nostalgia . |
| 24 | ‘ The demands are what I would have expected , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said steadily . |
| 25 | They were a kindly couple , rather older than one would have expected , although there had always been a suggestion of old-fashionedness about Dorothy as a child . |
| 26 | She was a wiry little person one would have expected to live on and on . |
| 27 | Of course , an absurd price is exactly what we would have expected Ephron to suggest in the circumstances . |
| 28 | That is only what we would have expected them to do . |
| 29 | The fact that the Labour Party did not lead public opinion as strongly as it might have done meant that the National government had an easier ride than it might otherwise have expected . |
| 30 | These penalties , to be sure , fell far short of what she might have expected for speaking out in Stalin 's Russia , which she had continued to admire for far longer than many people . |