Example sentences of "can expect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST how big are the savings a diesel car driver can expect over petrol motoring ? |
| 2 | And Mick chatting to Jenny about what we can expect over the next few weeks , as we spend a day in the life . |
| 3 | In town , it only returns 23mpg but at a steady 56mph , it gives an amazing 40mpg and even cruising on the motorway , drivers can expect over 32mpg . |
| 4 | The old debt has been nagging away these last 16 years , and Moore made a point last week of reminding Bobby Robson of the hostile reception England can expect on Wednesday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Those who pursue explication can expect to be seen as suspicious , for they embody the marginality of the anthropologist , described by Lévi-Strauss ( 1973 : 67 ) as being someone who is ‘ psychologically speaking maimed , an amputee ’ . |
| 7 | They will have to answer for the team 's performances and can expect to be closely questioned on how often they saw those performances . |
| 8 | The Wanderers ' manager , Phil Neal , has some way to go before he can expect to be so honoured but he collected several brownie points after his side 's spirited performance . |
| 9 | Yet now they are told they can expect to pocket £1,500 . |
| 10 | Yet now they are told they can expect to pocket £1,500 . |
| 11 | Touch legering , like so many things worth doing , needs to be practised before you can expect to be proficient . |
| 12 | The average household can expect to be burgled once every forty years , for example , while violent confrontation between the intruder and victim is very rare — one per cent of ail cases . |
| 13 | The informatics graduate can expect to be at the forefront of the development of new software products and tools or to follow a career in developing technology applications for a range of areas — from industry to the public sector and from health care to agriculture . |
| 14 | Given our financial priorities , we will not be challenging the big six in Europe but we can expect to be an increasingly strong player . |
| 15 | For a longer period than in years gone by they can expect to be on their own together . |
| 16 | Neil Tennant may wonder how they can expect to be taken seriously but , to millions of record buyers the world over , they are the ultimate realisation of the rock dream ; tribal passion , myth , commitment and the belief that guitars really can bring down governments . |
| 17 | But King He can expect to be freed in three years ' time but Don King is convinced the former champion 's conviction will be overturned at a forthcoming appeal . |
| 18 | A pure Scot arriving in New York , Cardiff or any other of the non-Scottish capitals can expect to be welcomed by other Celts , whatever their original nation and however many generations have passed since their ancestors left it . |
| 19 | City goalkeeper Tony Coton can expect to be carpeted by the FA following spitting allegations during Tuesday 's win at Wimbledon . |
| 20 | The lieutenant believed ‘ it will be a long time before he can expect to be advanced to be captain in so old a corps . |
| 21 | We are indebted to Beumont et al for having grasped the nettle in laying down the grade at which a girl or woman can expect to be respected as a climber and transcend the status defined by ‘ bimbo , ’ i.e. interesting only if she happens to be pretty . |
| 22 | With both types , the lenders have your new home as security , but since they 're taking a bigger risk than normal , you can expect to be charged a higher rate of interest . |
| 23 | A new entrant into a creative department can expect to be doing such jobs . |
| 24 | Field men can expect to be contacted not only with requests to handle complaints , instructions to attend pollutions or collect samples , but also on quite trivial matters . |
| 25 | According to Goffmann , what lends credibility to our concepts of personal self is the recognition of certain rules or conventions which limit the claims we can expect to be acknowledged with respect to freedom from untoward threat , interference and so forth . |
| 26 | The voting pattern for the parties is so uniform throughout the country that the influence on a constituency of a particular candidate is insignificant ; candidates without the support of a major party can expect to fail and minor or ad hoc or single-interest parties can expect to be swept aside … |
| 27 | But this Sunday they 've all got something in common — it 's Father 's Day , the one day of the year when they can expect to be thoroughly pampered and spoiled by the rest of the family for a change . |
| 28 | Neither party can expect to be in permanent government or permanent opposition : each party " swings " in and out of office . |
| 29 | You can expect to be promoted within two or three years of qualifying . |
| 30 | As a result , people can expect to be on the waiting list for about seven years whereas under the Labour Government it was about one year . |