Example sentences of "[pron] can expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If brought to trial , she can expect a long prison sentence , followed by ‘ re-education through labour ’ in a camp in Qinghai — ‘ China 's Siberia ’ — an Area like the Sahara desert , in the west of the country , where the climate is notorious for its boiling heat in summer and freezing temperatures in winter . |
2 | If you go to a fancy-dress party as a Turkish dancer , you can expect a good time ; if you travel on public transport late at night in such a get-up it will probably cause nothing but trouble . |
3 | There 's a weekly farewell dinner and you can expect a welcoming drink on arrival . |
4 | So you can expect the geometric pattern lounge carpet to look sharp in years to come . |
5 | Notice in particular that we have not used , anywhere in our analysis , the " shape " of the tubes T and S , so we can expect a similar analysis to hold for all homoclinic orbits to the origin which occur in the Lorenz equations . |
6 | Happily , our foetuses are small , and we can expect a standard termination . |
7 | Consequently , if unemployment and poverty continue to spread into the Wirral population , we can expect a related increase in the number of potential heroin users ( cf. |
8 | However , she warned , " the fact that we are entering the path of economic development does not mean that we can expect a quick jump in living standards " . |
9 | Economy simply relates to the best use of resources and as budgets are delegated we can expect a welcome change in attitudes towards waste . |
10 | Since , in equilibrium , the aggregate demand for goods and services will be equal to the rate of national income ( which measures the total value of goods and services produced in the economy over a given time period ) , we can expect a direct relationship between the aggregate demand for labour and the rate of national income . |
11 | Since the rates of return on bonds and equities represent the opportunity cost of holding money , we can expect an inverse relationship between the rates of return expected by wealth-holders and the demand for money . |
12 | Since the rates of return on bonds and equities represent the opportunity cost of holding money , we can expect an inverse relationship between these expected rates of return and the demand for money . |
13 | Eventually we can expect the central mark ( which tells us which region we are in at the moment ) to have moved to parts of the two sequences which are quite different . |
14 | For the economy as a whole , we can expect the total demand for money for transactions purposes to depend directly on money national income . |
15 | What it means is that we reduce our service , and we take , we can , we can , we can expect the independent sector to fill that gap for us . |
16 | For heterosexuals up to 1991 , the peak of HIV infection had yet to be reached and so one can expect a continued rise in the annual incidence of AIDS cases for some time to come . |
17 | For example , scales a tritone or a semitone apart have only two notes in common ; all other notes are different , and so one can expect a considerable degree of conflict unless ( as in the Bartók example ) adequate vertical consonance can be maintained . |
18 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
19 | He can expect a rough welcome . |