Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not expect [adj] [noun] " 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 | I readily acknowledge that I can not expect definitive statements from the Minister when the answers given by his ministerial colleagues , who have greater legal experience than the Minister and I possess , are , to say the least , somewhat circumspect . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's no reason at all why you should n't expect good quality work , Julia , ’ David said calmly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You ca n't expect ordinary people in this situation to live like hermits , and it would be unreasonable to expect Charles and Diana to live like hermits . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't expect fried eggs to be all tidy . |
| 7 | You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers . |
| 8 | However , direct coercive sanctions require continuous effort , and may in fact be a rather brittle form of social control , so we should not expect dominant groups in different societies to rely wholly and simply on such crude means of retaining their power and privilege , especially where their position has long been entrenched . |
| 9 | Just because John was a journalist we could n't expect special treatment . |
| 10 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 11 | In retirement we must achieve a state of calm , for we can not expect large segments of our lives to be filled with ecstasy . |
| 12 | We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Besides its low-profile Object Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service application integration scheme , it thinks that COSE might like Habitat , its technology for enabling an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix System V.4 on its OSF/1 system — and it would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away . |
| 15 | It would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away . |