Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was when such books could expect reasonable sales . |
| 2 | Where a treaty provides for rights of navigation through a certain route , for example an interoceanic canal , it is evident that third party claims to use that route will be made , and that third parties will expect those rights to be irrevocable . |
| 3 | STEVE Perryman admits a new striker is his priority but he will not say if fans can expect good news this week . |
| 4 | A national survey has shown one in 15 schools can expect some sort of fire . |
| 5 | Sentencing , Judge David Bryant told the gang : ‘ Dishonest people like you who choose to make your living out of stealing , transforming and selling other people 's motor cars can expect substantial sentences of imprisonment . ’ |
| 6 | Sukarno and his associates could expect little sympathy from the returning Allies ; surely then the Dutch would be restored ? |
| 7 | As for other sectors , retailers can expect attractive deals from landlords throughout the country ; exactly the same goes for industrialists leasing premises either on the less prestigious business parks or run-of-the-mill estates . |
| 8 | It is generally assumed that ‘ control ’ is a desirable feature and therefore has an additional premium value , ie purchasers will pay extra to acquire control and vendors will expect extra money to relinquish control . |
| 9 | Looking at the report and using the present criteria for increase in pensions and these are the figures that I did n't produce but er they look pretty bleak as I said because what the pensions can expect next year will be eighty four P for single pensioners and one twenty eight in that area for a couple and then we had look at we have some concern of what happened yesterday in a statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who said he is going to extend V A T and also it has now been that instead of putting on half of it in nineteen ninety four he put the full pile at seventeen and a half percent in nineteen ninety four because what was being saved is that if he 's leave the other half to nineteen ninety five it 'll be round near the elections and er there could be some difficulty . |
| 10 | But gipsies and travellers can expect little support fromk Tory MPs whop maintain the nusiance and distress to local communties must be stopped . |
| 11 | Those who participate in such campaigns must expect substantial sentences . |
| 12 | This reading of silences depends on the argument that the companionate ideal of marriage developed first among the privileged classes , and that in the eighteenth century lower class women could expect little affection in marriage . |
| 13 | He pointed out that Mr Evans ' salary was many times higher than that of the Prime Minister and that massive increases meant others would expect similar rises . |
| 14 | Returning soldiers would expect higher wages than the Egyptian migrant workers hired during the war . |
| 15 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |