Example sentences of "can not be expect [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will never lose sight of who his pupils are , what they can and can not be expected to take for granted . |
| 2 | For long chains , co-operative motion can not be expected to extend along the entire length , and the polymer tends to act as if it were composed of a series of interconnected , but independent , kinetic units . |
| 3 | The following day Sharif sent a special envoy to the UN Secretary-General , calling for a UN fact-finding mission to Kashmir , and warning that Pakistan " can not be expected to continue to indefinitely prevent such marches by use of force " . |
| 4 | ‘ It is my belief that , without an honest money , Soviet citizens can not be expected to respond to the reforms , as they do not have a meaningful incentive , ’ said Mr Angell . |
| 5 | For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them . |
| 6 | Emotionally troubled people can not be expected to deal with their emotions until they are able to understand what those emotions are , how they have arisen , and what can be done to overcome them . |
| 7 | People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently . |
| 8 | It has to be remembered that in the case of a unitized load , whether palletized or containerized , the driver can not be expected to pontificate upon the true nature , condition or quality of the goods being carried . |
| 9 | Preferences can change , and if different political parties have differing views , a private rather than social interest can not be expected to persist for ever . |
| 10 | Teachers and other educationalists can not be expected to come to an adequate understanding of recent trends in multicultural and anti-racist education , nor can they develop an independent critical judgement on recent controversies in this area , without some grasp of the deeper structural and ideological issues that underlie the racial dimension in education , politics and the economy . |
| 11 | Such a fluid working arrangement can not be expected to work in a larger industrial firm . |
| 12 | Management accountable to owners can not be expected to enter into meaningful agreements , planning or otherwise , which limit their freedom under the law to act in the best interest of the owners . |
| 13 | Those at lower organizational levels who will be responsible for implementing various aspects of the change can not be expected to commit to the effort until they see for themselves that the organizational leadership is similarly committed . |
| 14 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 15 | Young Whizzquid and his City friends can not be expected to toil on Aunt Agatha 's behalf for nothing , and the spread between offer prices and bid — between what she puts in and what she could take out five minutes later — is around 6% . |