Example sentences of "[pron] can expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is n't just amusing himself , then I can expect total siege . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
| 4 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 5 | In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears . |
| 6 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We can expect such systems to show varying degrees of ability to acclimatize . |
| 10 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
| 11 | If it is severe , we can expect serious dissatisfaction . |
| 12 | Again , we can expect long-term influences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ With the worsening economic climate we can expect more unemployment , mortgage repossessions , bankruptcies and general indebtedness . |
| 16 | So we can expect this summer , in your view we can expect to see as many tourists from overseas as we normally do . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Though they have little knowledge of the strength of the Irish Students England are confident they will be able to take another step towards their overall target and should it develop into an open game on the well-drained Blundellsands pitch they can expect few problems . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So long as he taxes spirits in a highly discriminatory fashion at home , he can expect other Member States to follow suit . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |