Example sentences of "we can expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We can expect such systems to show varying degrees of ability to acclimatize . |
| 4 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
| 5 | If it is severe , we can expect serious dissatisfaction . |
| 6 | It seems we can expect yet-another Intel-based desktop operating system to make an appearance this summer . |
| 7 | Again , we can expect long-term influences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve . |
| 8 | So in spite of the Conservatives domination of the area , we can expect some exciting contests in this election and perhaps even some upsets . |
| 9 | Cloud amounts will vary but we can expect some warm sunshine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ With the worsening economic climate we can expect more unemployment , mortgage repossessions , bankruptcies and general indebtedness . |
| 15 | we can expect most |
| 16 | This being the case , we can expect pragmatic and discoursal behaviour to be important means of identifying the different ways in which Anderson is " vague " in conversation . |
| 17 | So we can expect this summer , in your view we can expect to see as many tourists from overseas as we normally do . |