Example sentences of "can [adv] be expect [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With contracting , hospital doctors will be the agents of the provider , not the purchasing authority , and again can not be expected to take on the gatekeeper role . |
| 2 | A litter of truly wild rabbits taken into captivity and contained in a hutch can not be expected to live very long . |
| 3 | Until he is capable of doing this without a rider , he can not be expected to do so when ridden . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , in a business which provides a public good and where the government is a monopsonist , it can not be expected to stand aside . |
| 5 | He warned : ‘ We can not be expected to come up with good ideas if the Government continues to reduce our budget every year . |
| 6 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 7 | The first pruning after planting is the important formative prune — the plant can not be expected to grow right if it does not start right . |
| 8 | Collective bargaining institutions and rules can not be expected to function adequately when wrenched out of their original context and implanted elsewhere , since they are closely linked with the structure and organisation of political and social power in their own environment or habitat . |
| 9 | The outcome is that adjectives expressing the more basic types of property can generally be expected to appear prenominally but not postnominally . |
| 10 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , for example , can hardly be expected to explain publicly the extent to which our joining the ERM has tied his hand . |
| 11 | Blimpish or not , they can hardly be expected to do otherwise . |