Example sentences of "can expect [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students can expect to spend a substantial part of their courses doing practical laboratory work . |
| 2 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
| 3 | With the loss of the fish , we can expect to lose the electric-blue flash of the kingfisher . |
| 4 | Most obviously , both women and men can expect to have a recognizable period of ‘ old age ’ when they have ceased paid work , the creation of a standard age of retirement from work being a twentieth century phenomenon . |
| 5 | Apart from these and some other editions and issues remarkable in one way or another , the collector can expect to have an easier time financially than in many other fields of collecting . |
| 6 | Northern Telecom Ltd has reached agreement to manufacture and sell packet switches in China : it says it has a three-year deal with China National Post & Telecommunications Appliance Corp and Nanjing Telecommunications Equipment Factory , and that the manufacturing operation , in Nanjing , will be its third site in China — ‘ With this local manufacturing capability , we can expect to become the leading force in the development of China 's data communications infrastructure , ’ it said . |