Example sentences of "can expect a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He can expect a rough welcome . |
2 | Guests can expect a fantastic standard of both accommodation and service , and we think the food 's pretty good as well ! |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Birmingham 's opponents tonight , Bari , can expect a frenzied greeting and their former midfield ace , David Platt , pinpointed the Midland club 's way to victory . |
5 | Happily , our foetuses are small , and we can expect a standard termination . |
6 | THE BBC can expect a cool reception when it visits Stockton next week . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | There 's a weekly farewell dinner and you can expect a welcoming drink on arrival . |
9 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
10 | The ambitious soldier can expect a similar progression , from Commander of the Bath when he becomes brigadier , to KCB when he reaches lieutenant-general and GCB when he eventually storms the summit of military life . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Guests staying in either the main building or the annexe , just 15 yards away , can expect a comfortable bedroom with telephone and , for a small extra fee , satellite TV can be installed . |
14 | If they decide to put some financial weight behind his thinking , Britain 's research in medicine and health can expect a gigantic shot in the arm . |
15 | Economy simply relates to the best use of resources and as budgets are delegated we can expect a welcome change in attitudes towards waste . |
16 | WHOEVER wins the qualifying game between Belfast 's Alan McMullan and the Provincial 's Ian McClure can expect a tough battle in the opening quarter-final of the Flogas Causeway Coast Masters in Ballymoney on October 9-10 . |
17 | WHOEVER wins the qualifying game between Belfast 's Alan McMullan and the Provincial 's Ian McClure can expect a tough battle in the opening quarter-final of the Flogas Causeway Coast Masters in Ballymoney on October 9–10 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 " . |
20 | 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. |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Reserves Duncan Chapman and Paul Pickering can expect a difficult time against in-form Dane , Richard Juul , and Max Schofield , the former Bear who will be determined to prove a point to Middlesbrough for allowing him to move on . |
23 | THE way things are going , any Rugby Union player who has kept himself fit during the summer , can expect a sudden telephone call inviting him to join either the Lions or England on tour . |
24 | It was the third time Hillman has been sent off in his career and having been suspended for 20 weeks for his last offence , can expect a lengthy suspension for his latest misdemeanour . |
25 | But Harry can expect a big cake , a pile of cards … and a special phone call from home . |
26 | And no region of Britain can expect an overall increase in employment during 1993 , says a poll of 2,000 companies by the Manpower job agency . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |