Example sentences of "can expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hungry OEMs — of the likes of Dell Computer Corp , CompuAdd Corp , AST Research Inc , and Toshiba Corp — can expect first developers kits in October , Sunsoft claims . |
| 3 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 4 | We can expect such systems to show varying degrees of ability to acclimatize . |
| 5 | STEVE Perryman admits a new striker is his priority but he will not say if fans can expect good news this week . |
| 6 | So long as he taxes spirits in a highly discriminatory fashion at home , he can expect other Member States to follow suit . |
| 7 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
| 8 | This would seem to point to the need for more centralised bargaining since a government can most effectively pursue its policy of encouraging responsive bargaining if it can deal with the leaders of unions and employers who represent highly centralised structures , themselves have adequate authority and can expect appropriate support and consent from their memberships ( OECD , 1979a ) . |
| 9 | No traditional formula could compete on value-for-money with a well-run guesthouse where , as the public has begun to realise , it can expect cheaper prices coupled with modern levels of comfort . |
| 10 | Again , we can expect long-term influences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve . |
| 11 | Bell opted out of the tour , but declared himself available for internationals , and can expect extra attention on Sunday from the Kiwi centres . |
| 12 | In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears . |
| 13 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 14 | He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But gipsies and travellers can expect little support fromk Tory MPs whop maintain the nusiance and distress to local communties must be stopped . |
| 17 | Those caught in the ‘ genteel poverty trap ’ can expect little sympathy from people earning the national wage of £15,790 or less . |
| 18 | Sentencing the three men on Aug. 28 , he said that the offence had been an attack on the integrity of the stock market , and that he wished " to send a clear message that those who seek commercial advantage by acting dishonestly … can expect little mercy from the courts " . |
| 19 | In the case of a contested bid the offeror can expect little co-operation from the target or its directors . |
| 20 | This will be particularly important in relation to contested takeovers where the offeror can expect little co-operation from the board of the target . |
| 21 | If he is n't just amusing himself , then I can expect total siege . |
| 22 | The marrow regenerates itself rapidly while the patient spends the next three months in a plastic bubble ; 30 per cent can expect total remission . |
| 23 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |
| 24 | If it is severe , we can expect serious dissatisfaction . |
| 25 | Sentencing , Judge David Bryant told the gang : ‘ Dishonest people like you who choose to make your living out of stealing , transforming and selling other people 's motor cars can expect substantial sentences of imprisonment . ’ |
| 26 | The Government can expect sustained flak on the wider constitutional issue now that this can of worms has been opened up . |
| 27 | Neither Mr Fallon nor Mr Bergg can expect any help from the borough council . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 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 . |