Example sentences of "can not be expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Saints managed to cause an upset with nothing more than direct running and honest endeavour , bodes well for Great Britain , though the Kiwis can not be expected to enter the Test arena in such a generous mood . |
| 2 | ‘ We can not be expected to draft legislation at this stage , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | They can not be expected to consider the inflationary consequences of their commercial activities . |
| 5 | Leadership can not be expected from those quarters . |
| 6 | ‘ The opportunities remain good , but miracles can not be expected overnight , ’ he said . |
| 7 | LRT has warned that passengers can not be expected to finance the group 's entire five-year £3 billion capital spending programme . |
| 8 | 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% . |
| 9 | You do not know me and so you can not be expected to take anything on trust . |
| 10 | Local staff or voluntary workers can not be expected to have the resources , time or experience to ensure that telecommunications , backdrop , crowd flow , music , lighting and camera positions are available at the right time and in the right way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As even the Treasury probably does not have a sufficiently sophisticated model to calculate where exchange rates or interest rates will go , the cleverest entrepreneur can not be expected to give a correct answer . |
| 13 | Quick radical solutions to complex human , social , technical and economic problems in such areas can not be expected , but they can be greatly accelerated by the adoption of appropriate financial , administrative and educational systems . |
| 14 | 17.7 Children can not be expected to learn everything at once . |
| 15 | A simple replicator , whether gene or meme , can not be expected to forgo short-term selfish advantage even if it would really pay it , in the long term , to do so . |
| 16 | Until he is capable of doing this without a rider , he can not be expected to do so when ridden . |
| 17 | He will never lose sight of who his pupils are , what they can and can not be expected to take for granted . |
| 18 | The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts . |
| 19 | They can not be expected to read every piece of intelligence that pours into Whitehall . |
| 20 | People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently . |
| 21 | Patients can not be expected to feel safe and secure without this information . |
| 22 | In particular , criminal statistics only show what police forces record , and the police clearly can not be expected to record the numerous offences which they do not know about . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Thus it can not be expected that a consideration of the species present in an assemblage will identify the predator responsible for bringing it together even for large sample sizes ( Mason & Macdonald , 1980 ) . |
| 25 | At the same time , a vuggy porosity was also created in the lower unit of carbonate mudstones but this was found to have resulted from the dissolution of patches and veins of replacement halite ( Fig. 29b and c ) and as such can not be expected to be present away from the areas where replacement has occurred . |
| 26 | It must always be kept in mind that the nurse can not be expected to become an expert in the speciality from a short allocation . |
| 27 | Alan Winter , deputy managing director of Legal & General 's property arm , says market balance in the Square Mile can not be expected before 1994–95 . |
| 28 | This was not surprising , for a weak government can not be expected to have an efficient police-service , or army . |
| 29 | A litter of truly wild rabbits taken into captivity and contained in a hutch can not be expected to live very long . |
| 30 | As I write , I make assumptions about what my reader already knows about language and language learning , about the common ground of knowledge , and what he or she can not be expected to know since it concerns the idiosyncrasies of my own view of these matters . |