Example sentences of "can [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can I expect my hotel room to be like ? |
| 2 | What MPG range can I expect from the standard Land Rover V8 ? |
| 3 | Burdened by the fear that some ‘ performance ’ , of which they feel incapable , is expected , and therefore that their ‘ manliness ’ is threatened , they may get so miserable and anxious that they realise their worst fears , by becoming unable to have an erection and then hiding behind the idea that ‘ I 'm an old man now , so what can I expect ? ’ |
| 4 | Which pickup is best suited to this guitar ( one that fits under the bridge saddle ) and what standard of sound can I expect ? |
| 5 | If I do n't help myself , how can I expect anyone else to want to help ? ’ |
| 6 | What sort of reaction can I expect ? |
| 7 | But what can I expect ? |
| 8 | ‘ What can I expect ? |
| 9 | How far can I expect the audience to share the desired meaning of the work ? |
| 10 | As Richard Attenborough once said to me , ‘ If you have n't learnt to play to an audience that is present , how can you expect to play to one that is n't ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ How can you expect me to risk my boys ? ’ |
| 12 | What can you expect is a certain amount of resentment or sour grapes between October 1–4 and , frustrating as it may be , all you can really do about the situation is put up and shut up in the certain knowledge that you will gain your freedom , however long it takes . |
| 13 | It may not be as easy as surrendering your body to the doctor and simply taking the medicine , nor can you expect an over-night cure . |
| 14 | But what can you expect ? ’ |
| 15 | If there is nothing in the potency , how can you expect an effect ? |
| 16 | What can you expect if councils are n't given enough money to collect the rubbish ? |
| 17 | But what can you expect from a party that promises a 2 per cent tax cut , thus boosting consumerism ? |
| 18 | The growth of the industrial proletariat convinced him that state education for all was essential , though in 1809 he asked : ‘ What can you expect of national education conducted by a government which for twenty years resisted the abolition of the Slave Trade ? ’ |
| 19 | But how can you expect a system to solve your problems , if you did n't clarify exactly what they were prior to selection ? ’ |
| 20 | Can you expect the bridegroom 's friends to fast while the bridegroom is with them ? |
| 21 | But then what can you expect from a part-time , middle-class socialist ? |
| 22 | What assistance and support in managerial and professional terms can you expect from your neighbourhood nursing team manager ? |
| 23 | What specific social problems are prevalent in the area and what support can you expect in trying to prioritise for special need ? |
| 24 | How many times have we heard comments along the lines of ‘ What can you expect from a child from that kind of family ? ’ |
| 25 | If an ill-designed and poorly constructed house collapses , how can you expect otherwise ? |
| 26 | ‘ But what else can you expect if bloody groundsmen prepare bloody wickets like this one ? ’ |
| 27 | " How can you expect me to teach art ? " |
| 28 | Her mother 's contemptuous sniff meant , Judith knew , ‘ What can you expect from a goy ? ’ but that was too familiar a piece of bigotry to provoke her into argument . |
| 29 | You die so many times ; how can you expect them to believe in your death ? |
| 30 | What else can you expect ? |