Example sentences of "can expect [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women currently outlive men by about six years , so that as they retire five years earlier they can expect on average to spend twice as long as men in retirement . |
| 2 | But while Half A Sixpence has a budget of £35,000 , the best any Young Walsingham can expect to received is three pence . |
| 3 | What budget borrowers can expect for next year will depend on when their review date falls . |
| 4 | Moreover farmers , at least , continue to appreciate the skills of farm workers , so that the latter obtain much higher esteem from their employers than they can expect from many newcomers . |
| 5 | The times to complete give a rough guide as to what users can expect from heavy computation work : |
| 6 | The times to complete give a rough guide as to what users can expect from heavy computation work : |
| 7 | A short ‘ idiot 's guide ’ to fundraising ( of the sort this idiot would need ) with suggestions about events and methods of fundraising ( including how much they can expect from house-to-house collecting ) , any rules they need to know , how to link with CA , how to do a bit of educating through a display or briefing meeting or a good enjoyable social occasion to launch the effort and raise the level of interest and understanding . |
| 8 | . Now what I 'm now going to do , I 'm going to tell you what these initials are , so if you , on the back of the piece of the paper , you make some notes , because some of these obviously are going to be what you , your personality is , but you also need to note , if you look at the type of things that you can expect from different people in the teams , or the strengths and weaknesses that some people may have in your team . |
| 9 | Then we 'd be able to see what our harvest has brought from London , what we can expect from this place , and from the King . ’ |
| 10 | The Employment Service has published the jobseekers charter setting out clearly the high standards of service which the public can expect in all its offices . |
| 11 | This will give some intuitive idea of the amount of change that we can expect in real natural evolution . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Clinton has already emphasised the areas of continuity we can expect in foreign policy under his presidency . |