Example sentences of "[pron] can expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is n't just amusing himself , then I can expect total siege . |
| 2 | Therefore the chances are , and this is statistical , it 's a statistical chance , in general I can expect any mutation in me to be passed on to half my offspring complete . |
| 3 | The SDLP , which can expect three or possibly four MPs if Mr Gerry Adams , the Sinn Fein leader is beaten in West Belfast , would side with Labour . |
| 4 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
| 5 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 6 | In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears . |
| 7 | You can expect much more than £1,000 if you make such a beachcombing discovery . |
| 8 | You can expect each of these products to have all the basic functions , so they 're pretty similar in those terms . |
| 9 | All the general advice given to improve your interview performance holds equally good when being interviewed by an agency and you can expect many of the same questions . |
| 10 | Butyl is the best liner to work with because it 's more flexible , and you can expect many trouble-free years from it provided you do n't assume it 's immune to damage . |
| 11 | The programmer will at least have tested the examples used in the documentation and so you can expect these , and procedures like them , to work ! |
| 12 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 13 | At the beginning of December , you can expect some extra developments regarding a domestic or professional matter , and this time you ca n't resist the winds of change . |
| 14 | Mirco is Czech and Annette is half-French so you can expect some creative cuisine here . |
| 15 | He has sub-titled his talk ‘ A Layman 's View ’ , but you can expect some thought-provoking views . |
| 16 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
| 17 | Not only will the proposed reorganisation plunge local government into confusion and uncertainty for a number of years , during which we can expect little progress with the review and upgrading of old minerals permissions , but the resulting structure of small unitary authorities is very unlikely to deliver either the resources or the strategic perspective required to implement the proposed review . |
| 18 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 19 | We can expect such systems to show varying degrees of ability to acclimatize . |
| 20 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
| 21 | If it is severe , we can expect serious dissatisfaction . |
| 22 | It seems we can expect yet-another Intel-based desktop operating system to make an appearance this summer . |
| 23 | Again , we can expect long-term influences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve . |
| 24 | So in spite of the Conservatives domination of the area , we can expect some exciting contests in this election and perhaps even some upsets . |
| 25 | Cloud amounts will vary but we can expect some warm sunshine . |
| 26 | At private meetings over meals or in his office North would produce his spiral notebook or pieces of yellow legal paper , asking ‘ how in God 's name we can expect these young men and women to fight against Communism when this is what they 're up against ’ , and often breaking into tears . |
| 27 | If the Shipman 's Tale is a redaction of a dramatized fabliau of the same kind as the English Dame Sirith we can expect these opening lines to convey at least some particular characteristics of the fabliau as conceived and used by Chaucer . |
| 28 | One answer to this question might utilize an optical theory of the telescope that explains its magnifying properties and that also gives an account of the various aberrations to which we can expect telescopic images to be subject . |
| 29 | We can expect more statements in the coming weeks and months and I am certain they will be about more than the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales , which is not a grave legal or constitutional matter . |
| 30 | ‘ With the worsening economic climate we can expect more unemployment , mortgage repossessions , bankruptcies and general indebtedness . |