Example sentences of "that we can not expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bad is that we can not expect sharp short term demand recovery , certainly not recovery pulled through by exports ’ , he explained . |
| 2 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 3 | Certainly it is true that we can not expect that writers in Palestine thousands of years ago would have talked about sicknesses in the jargon of medical aetiology . |
| 4 | For his more recent view suggests that we can not expect to gain untainted ‘ knowledge ’ of ourselves and our relation to social practices , so that the claim that individuals are not subjects must be assessed , like its competitors , by appeal to various kinds of criteria . |
| 5 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |