Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [not/n't] expect [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's no reason at all why you should n't expect good quality work , Julia , ’ David said calmly . |
| 3 | It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays . |
| 4 | You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers . |
| 5 | Just because John was a journalist we could n't expect special treatment . |
| 6 | We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’ |
| 7 | The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed . |