Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
| 32 | If it is severe , we can expect serious dissatisfaction . |
| 33 | Again , we can expect long-term influences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve . |
| 34 | One answer to this question might utilize an optical theory of the telescope that explains its magnifying properties and that also gives an account of the various aberrations to which we can expect telescopic images to be subject . |
| 35 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 36 | He has warned the council that unless it rectifies this situation it should expect strong opposition against the bill . |
| 37 | She made Johnson feel doubly at home , as she had ‘ lived many years in England ’ , therefore he could expect English manners and sense of comfort . |
| 38 | So long as he taxes spirits in a highly discriminatory fashion at home , he can expect other Member States to follow suit . |
| 39 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |
| 40 | He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided . |