Example sentences of "[noun pl] could expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was when such books could expect reasonable sales . |
| 2 | Sukarno and his associates could expect little sympathy from the returning Allies ; surely then the Dutch would be restored ? |
| 3 | Ministers of state , great noblemen , and royal favourites could expect this as a matter of course . |
| 4 | But this was not all : officers could expect intermittent , unofficial , and indirect rewards from Crown and people . |
| 5 | This reading of silences depends on the argument that the companionate ideal of marriage developed first among the privileged classes , and that in the eighteenth century lower class women could expect little affection in marriage . |