Example sentences of "could expect a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They boasted that it was the worst they 'd ever known , and could expect a million profit with confidence . |
| 2 | ‘ With most criminal kidnaps you could expect a long wait . |
| 3 | Stevens was one of the most meticulous of film directors and any actor working with him could expect a gruelling time . |
| 4 | If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) . |
| 5 | Important or insignificant , customs appointments were , however , obtainable only by those who could expect a political favour , and many of the officers were in fact the nominees of a member of parliament and often the active partisans of that politician . |
| 6 | Therefore , as Ernest Tuveson points out in Imagination as a Means of Grace : ‘ From the nature of mind as described by Locke we could expect a new poetry to be highly visual in nature , for the faculty of sight came to monopolize the analysis of intellectual activity . ’ |
| 7 | Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty . |
| 8 | Mariot capped this by suggesting that , since the Earl Patrick would presumably intend to yield that castle should Berwick town fall to King Edward , he could expect a greater reward from that monarch if the castle was nominally his own , not just a crown possession . |
| 9 | What appalling style , even twenty years ago one could expect a better standard of English . |
| 10 | He consulted diviners when Anne Boleyn became pregnant , anxious to know whether he could expect a male heir . |
| 11 | They were sure I could expect a large present from her , either before or after her death . |
| 12 | If a company can limit its interruption claim to a period of three months rather than three years , it could expect a premium reduction of between 25 and 50 per cent . |