Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
| 2 | When you 've had an industrialist as a father and you know how a business works , you ca n't expect farmers to ignore every business principle to be Green . |
| 3 | ‘ But you ca n't expect Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to help us if we show we do n't trust him ! ’ |
| 4 | You ca n't expect miracles . |
| 5 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 6 | For that modest kind of money , of course , you ca n't expect perfection . |
| 7 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 8 | ‘ You ca n't expect people to come out of prison and go dashing to the social security — not on the day of their release . ’ |
| 9 | Clearly you ca n't expect admissions of people with disabilities er for example , taking one aspect of that er cultural and er that policy , to be high if you know the building itself is physically inaccessible . |
| 10 | You ca n't expect Mummy and me to do all the talking about you know what . |
| 11 | You ca n't expect Merrill to alter her arrangements at a moment 's notice . |
| 12 | Where , say , tench are concerned , you can confidently expect tench in the early morning and know your chances are practically non-existent in the afternoon , which is the case on almost all tench waters . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if the weather is already hot and the water temperature is 70° F. or more , then the wind suddenly springs up and brings a drop in water temperature and a rise in the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water , you can also expect fish . |
| 14 | But you can never expect Horowitz to toe the party line which is why , in the end , he succeeded in making so many first-rate recordings . |
| 15 | You can hardly expect lightning to strike twice in the same family . ’ |
| 16 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |
| 17 | You can hardly expect commitment and company loyalty from an employee who 's been press-ganged into working for you . |
| 18 | We ca n't expect gratitude , any more than we want charity from others . |
| 19 | We ca n't expect help from her . ’ |
| 20 | I know this is a bit of an affront to our high opinion of ourselves as human beings , er , of course many people regard it that way , but erm my view is that er we ca n't expect science necessarily to tell us things we want to hear . |
| 21 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 22 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 23 | Here the modest claim is made that without the social services , a section of the population will be permanently unemployed because in advanced industrial societies ‘ we can not expect industry to create many extra jobs because of the speed of technical change and job-saving investment . ’ |
| 24 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 25 | Of course we can not expect linguists , text critics or publishers to explain to us how best to interpret , mark and process those classically ambiguous phrases which are now the stock and trade of historical data modelling exercises . |
| 26 | We can not expect pupils to learn the sophistication necessary for handling difficult concepts if we constantly draw a veil over them and shut pupils off from the real debate . |
| 27 | Hence we can not expect markets and prices to ensure that the marginal benefits of making a noise are equated to the marginal cost of that noise to other people . |
| 28 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 29 | We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth . |
| 30 | We can also expect de-recognition by employers who are frightened to death by the T & G. It it 's already happening . |