Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not expect [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their commitment to each other was made , after all , and she could n't expect Rohan to jettison every other aspect of his life in her favour . |
| 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 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | You ca n't expect Merrill to alter her arrangements at a moment 's notice . |
| 6 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 7 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 12 | We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth . |
| 13 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |