Example sentences of "could expect [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
| 2 | Sukarno and his associates could expect little sympathy from the returning Allies ; surely then the Dutch would be restored ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
| 5 | Clearly , we could expect some sort of boundary indication , such as a pause , to occur long before the end of this utterance . |