Example sentences of "would [not/n't] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would not expect a well-made machine like this to be light , and at 2.8kg ( 6.2lb ) it is n't , so you need the two handles moulded into the case of the machine to help hold it . |
| 2 | Mr McMillan said : ‘ They have been guilty of what we would not expect from professional people in the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | He said that one would not expect a person found guilty of treating their own child cruelly to be allowed their liberty at once . |
| 4 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 5 | The turbo is not just a bolt-on ‘ goodie ’ for a normally aspirated engine The turbo engine has uprated valve gear , bearings , fuel pump and manifolding as well as improved cooling and lubrication systems I would not expect the normal 2 5 engine fitted with an after market turbo to have the same longevity as the factory built turbo diesel engine |
| 6 | Clearly it is not every year that the government introduces massive changes to social security legislation and the IPG would not expect an exercise of this size again for many years . |
| 7 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 8 | But if the electrons in the inversion layer are connected to a reservoir , as we have asserted to explain the plateaux , one would not expect them to behave like free , independent particles . |
| 9 | However , you should also make it clear that you would not expect to come in and immediately start changing things for the sake of it . |
| 10 | A freshly bought loaf , still warm from the oven , smells and tastes delicious — but we would not expect it to taste good a week later . |
| 11 | Once again , we would not expect the perception to be a problem . |
| 12 | From common sense one would not expect the mere possession of a regular , orderly arrangement of atoms or molecules to be a cause of weakness , and of course it is n't . |
| 13 | He made the point that had the position been reversed he would not expect to be pestered after giving a straight answer . |
| 14 | Her endless list of extras include a helipad on the boatdeck and several other features that one would not expect on a boat of her size . |
| 15 | Adrian Mole says and does things we would not expect from an adolescent . |
| 16 | This is an undesirable situation because a user of a script recognition system would not expect to write a word , and have it recognised as something which is not a word . |
| 17 | The representation is , of course , implicit and we would not expect any child to be able to state explicitly the phrase structure rules and transformations generating the sentences of his language . |
| 18 | Using this as a starting point , we would not expect the kinds of social pressure defined by anomie-type theories to force change from one finite state to the other . |
| 19 | The Keynesians would therefore expect a close relationship between the demand for money and the yield ( rate of interest ) on near-money substitutes , but the monetarist would not expect a significant relationship because of the belief that money is a substitute for all assets alike . |
| 20 | This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news . |
| 21 | In the context of a linguistics textbook , especially one on syntax , we would not expect to have to interpret two continuous cited sentences as describing an event sequence . |
| 22 | In this atmosphere , one would not expect the criticisms and justifications of the monarchy , qua monarchy , to be sharpened into explicitness , for they are not presently needed in debate . |
| 23 | That being so , one would not expect there to be fully formulated justifications . |
| 24 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 25 | I would not expect them to pair and breed until they are at least four inches long , so you will have to be patient . |
| 26 | An and I must admit that I would n't , I would not expect to see anybody delegated within the contract at less than M S one level . |
| 27 | He did not refer to anything so vulgar as payment , of course , because the Gnomes would not expect it . |
| 28 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 29 | One would not expect coral thickness exceeding 90 m ( 300 ft ) if only glacial control had been involved in the formation of coral islands . |
| 30 | If it were closed down suppose 750 of the men would not expect to find another job and would have to live off social security payments . |