Sentence examples for cannot have expected that from inspiring English sources
The government cannot have expected that so early in the inquiry the trail would lead from the defence secretary towards the prime minister.
He cannot have expected that this massively criminal act would do him any good, and it has put back - who knows for how long - the causes that we are told he professes to care about.
They had every right to be confident but even they cannot have expected the capitulation that followed, with England bowled out in 37 overs for 103, a total boosted to a small extent only by some late hitting on a may-as-well-have-a-go basis.
Short-sellers, who have complained for months that Nuance's shares were overvalued, argue that the company's first-quarter revenue shortfall was so large that Nuance executives cannot possibly have expected that sales were on track in mid-February, when the quarter was already half over.
"I should've expected that," DeBoer said.
There have been some other performances tonight from some more established players who we would have expected better from and we cannot dress over that.
Doesn't the NASD realize that Mr. Quattrone cannot have been expected to supervise his 260 bankers and 100 analysts?
