This was the entirely predictable consequence of the road we have travelled down, one step at a time.

The predictable consequence, in the long boom of the early years of this century, was an expansion in credit, in which the newly liberalised banking sector acted as intermediary.

They allowed various member states to join that didn't really meet the budget deficit requirements, with the very predictable consequences we've seen.

Then, three years ago, she fell off the wagon, with predictable consequences.

Statute would surely have some unintended but eminently predictable consequences.