Example sentences of "[pron] could expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made my way to a cottage near the church , where I had been told I could expect a night 's lodging . |
| 2 | " It 's Jane Graham , " I said , very uncertain how much she knew and what sort of reception I could expect . |
| 3 | They were sure I could expect a large present from her , either before or after her death . |
| 4 | As for Mark Crowe , the Argus sport and nature ramble hack , well , I thought I could expect some loyalty there . |
| 5 | It was my understanding that I could expect to free up some 610–615Kb of Conventional memory and also have lots of High RAM available . |
| 6 | In both blue-collar and white-collar employment , the long-predicted world in which nobody could expect to have one job for a lifetime has now arrived . |
| 7 | Nobody could expect you to think up anything as stupid as a dumb movie actress aiming at the front page . ’ |
| 8 | As paragraph 16.1 of Code C makes clear , the police officer is obliged to charge a suspect as soon as he believes that there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution to succeed , but nobody could expect the police simply to cease work on the case and rely at the trial only on the material revealed up to the moment of charging . |
| 9 | Other British manufacturing industries which could expect to be hit by the changes include car tyres , paper goods , ceramics , glassware , pipes , and CDs and audio tapes . |
| 10 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
| 11 | And she could not , thought Dalgliesh , be as naive as that ; he was surprised that she could expect him to believe that she was . |
| 12 | The conventional family division of labour not only reduces the number of hours a woman is available for paid work but also reduces the amount she could expect to earn per hour even in a non-discriminatory labour market . |
| 13 | She said nothing , but the cold sadistic look in the eyes of the SS women told her that she could expect no mercy . |
| 14 | To the watching girl it became increasingly obvious that she could expect no more help . |
| 15 | Yesterday , hospital on-call administrator Alan Kennedy said Mrs McIntyre 's complaint would be thoroughly investigated and she could expect a reply within ten working days . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He also talked in Morocco to Barbara Walters of ABC news , Walters was among those Western journalists with whom the Shah was on good terms and who could expect exclusive interviews when they came to Teheran , as well as personal attention from the Iranian ambassador in their won countries . |
| 18 | In fact , as the press release says , ‘ almost every rock climbing feature you could expect to find in the mountain environment . ’ |
| 19 | Each guide also includes full colour underwater photographs illustrating the marine life you could expect to see . |
| 20 | HOLLAND 'S only commercial reactor at Borssele is just about as ordinary a nuclear power plant as you could expect to find : 477 megawatts , 10 years old and saddled with a 20-year contract to supply electricity to the neighbouring Pechiney aluminium smelter at a third of the present going rate . |
| 21 | THERE was a time , I suppose , when you could expect to carry the essentials of modern technological developments in your head , and retrieve them pretty quickly and accurately . |
| 22 | The knowledge that the only help you could expect in times of trouble or need would have to be sought from a near neighbour ; and , even more fundamental , the bond of blood . |
| 23 | So with a daily deficit of 1,000 calories you could expect to shed around two pounds a week . |
| 24 | ‘ With most criminal kidnaps you could expect a long wait . |
| 25 | With savings of £20,000 you could expect to finance a franchise with a start-up cost and working capital of £60,000 . |
| 26 | His detached look at the phenomenon and at his feelings at the proximity of such a western icon were as much as you could expect . |
| 27 | So this wealth of information — all of it updated much more regularly than you could expect through normal information channels — is greatly under-used . |
| 28 | Noting the somewhat limited kinds of talk generated , the teacher commented that this no doubt reflected the limitations of the activities themselves : ‘ That 's about as much as you could expect to get out of them . ’ |
| 29 | Given a large aquarium , a varied diet and a lot of it , you could expect your Snakehead to reach almost its full length of about 100cm . |
| 30 | But should go to another factory and er hold your own in the factory you could expect to get the full money , which I did at twenty one . |