Example sentences of "could expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also talked in Morocco to Barbara Walters of ABC news , Walters was among those Western journalists with whom the Shah was on good terms and who could expect exclusive interviews when they came to Teheran , as well as personal attention from the Iranian ambassador in their won countries . |
| 2 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
| 3 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 4 | Time was when such books could expect reasonable sales . |
| 5 | Sukarno and his associates could expect little sympathy from the returning Allies ; surely then the Dutch would be restored ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | JS advertisements made it clear to customers they could expect higher standards from Sainsbury 's . |
| 8 | Nicholson wondered , if the snow came , what he could expect this time . |
| 9 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 10 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
| 11 | Another Friday 13th was approaching so I was certain we could expect another move , maybe the big one . |
| 12 | As for Mark Crowe , the Argus sport and nature ramble hack , well , I thought I could expect some loyalty there . |
| 13 | Clearly , we could expect some sort of boundary indication , such as a pause , to occur long before the end of this utterance . |
| 14 | She made Johnson feel doubly at home , as she had ‘ lived many years in England ’ , therefore he could expect English manners and sense of comfort . |