Example sentences of "can not [be] expect [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do not know me and so you can not be expected to take anything on trust . |
| 2 | He will never lose sight of who his pupils are , what they can and can not be expected to take for granted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Patients refused admission can not be expected to take much comfort from this explanation of their plight . |
| 5 | The argument that those who teach — and one would add those who manage teaching — can not be expected to go it alone was pursued by Clive Beck ( 1990 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since private shareholders can not be expected to subsidize the wider goals of society as a whole , public ownership may then be inevitable . |
| 8 | The first photographs required long exposures , and animals can not be expected to sit still as long as Victorian adults did ; but by the last quarter of the nineteenth century fast exposures were possible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | The Vendor can not be expected to anticipate what is and what is not material to a Purchaser . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ We can not be expected to draft legislation at this stage , ’ he said . |
| 14 | LRT has warned that passengers can not be expected to finance the group 's entire five-year £3 billion capital spending programme . |
| 15 | Trade unions are only as strong as their membership allows them to be and their leadership can not be expected to perform miracles . |
| 16 | A litter of truly wild rabbits taken into captivity and contained in a hutch can not be expected to live very long . |
| 17 | Furthermore , a landlord can not be expected to spend years chasing after a tenant in order to avail the tenant of the proceeds of sale . |
| 18 | Someone who has not the concept of age can not be expected to see someone as young or old . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I can not be expected to monitor these statements . |
| 22 | The person to whom it is addressed can not be expected to conduct a minute linguistic analysis of what is said to him where this is accompanied by aggressive gestures . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The role of the Crown Estate Commissioners in the management of fish farming can not be expected to fill the gap of a national policy which would properly regulate the industry " . |
| 25 | The Vendor can not be expected to underwrite the credit worthiness of the Business 's debtors which is the effect of this warranty . |
| 26 | He shows no love in his dictatorial and threatening speech in book five and we can not be expected to suppose , in our first reactions to the text , that what he is doing is altogether just . |
| 27 | Until he is capable of doing this without a rider , he can not be expected to do so when ridden . |
| 28 | On the other hand they can not be expected to do their job efficiently unless they have a substantial background of experience in commanding large public transport aircraft or their military equivalents . |
| 29 | And the consumer can not be expected to do it all on his own . |
| 30 | The biological resources that just supported small nomadic populations at a neolithic level of culture can not be expected to support larger populations at southern standards of living . |