Example sentences of "can [adv] expect [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the circumstances , I ca n't expect a warm welcome , Sabine thought wryly , as Ernestine silently accepted her light wrap , then conducted her to the salon where Gaston de Rochefort was waiting . |
| 2 | Equally , you ca n't expect a workable accessibility . |
| 3 | ‘ After six years of marriage , Clare , you ca n't expect the same relationship as on your wedding day . ’ |
| 4 | Part-time work , so you ca n't expect the same rates as fulltimers would get . |
| 5 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 6 | This is the deadly period when you can most expect a good take . |
| 7 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
| 8 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
| 9 | It is difficult to differentiate between flight performances of many of the third generation designs , particularly when one can not expect a constant windspeed . |
| 10 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 11 | Bedi believes India should concentrate on spin and forget hopes of a ‘ mediocre ’ pace attack making any dent in the England batting , saying : ‘ Kapil Dev is an exception , but you can not expect a one-man army to win for you all the time . ’ |
| 12 | Now I can not say whether you will have a secondary school , and the reason I can not say that er is because the education authority will , quite properly , and quite reasonably , look at the existing pattern of secondary education er in the area , and will bear in mind that secondary school children , not unreasonably , as they do now , can be expected , erm to travel , er some distance , er to a school facility , that is the real world , you can not expect a local education authority to spend vast amounts of money erm on er a high range of facilities , which are not justified by the size , er , of the community , and all these social , recreation , er an an and education facilities appropriate to the size erm of the community , need to be expressed in a pattern of land use which is well integrated , and well designed , in other words , it 's a good design concept er , and how do you do that ? |
| 13 | Every British academic complains of this problem , but the Germans have it worse because they are almost 30 before they get their degrees , and can not expect an academic job until they get a doctorate and a further qualification for academic teaching , called the habilitation . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 15 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 16 | This will go some way to draw the fire of the Government 's critics , but he can still expect a rough ride for the bill on the House of Lords . |
| 17 | Asked if the UN-mandated troops could do more to protect aid workers , Mr O'Reilly said : ‘ One can hardly expect a military escort can travel with every possible aid worker in Somalia … |
| 18 | Different manufacturers claim widely different life expectancies for both materials , but you can reasonably expect a five-year life from most types ( but as some manufacturers claim a life of only half this , and others double , check before you buy ) . |
| 19 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 20 | Next came an accusation , which Niki reports as follows , with Dennis saying , ‘ If you pay somebody such an amazing amount of money , you can surely expect a little friendship in exchange . ’ |