Example sentences of "expect [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLEASE NOTE All groundhoppers are expected to wear the following regulation uniform : ‘ Donovan ’ canvas cap , blue anorak with Ford Motors logo , brown Crimplene trousers , a battered Liverpool/Spurs/Hendon hold-all , a dog-eared red ‘ Winfield ’ notebook with short two-inch pencil , filthy trainers , a hideously expensive camera and a pocket full of Mars bars . |
| 2 | However States are not expected to monitor the prior treaty commitments of their potential treaty parties to ensure that they are compatible . |
| 3 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |
| 4 | A hundred and fifty thousand people are expected to attend a spectacular music festival over the weekend . |
| 5 | Instructors were expected to attend an instructional techniques course since the skill to instruct well was every bit as important as the craft skill . |
| 6 | Naturally you expect to find the highest quality construction in the world in a Mercedes , but the 500SL we tested had numerous faults that we thought ‘ undermined Mercedes ' quality image and appearance ’ . |
| 7 | Distinction Awards are Postgraduate studentships which are open to students ordinarily resident anywhere in the UK , who hold or expect to obtain a 1st class Honours degree and who have not previously obtained a postgraduate research award . |
| 8 | Having taken control of Volvo 's 29 per cent Pharmacia stake , which carries nearly half of the voting rights in Sweden 's biggest drugs company , Procordia is expected to launch a full takeover bid of at least £1billion . |
| 9 | The UK group is expected to meet the small group criteria for its current financial year ending 31 December 1992 having met the relevant criteria in its previous financial year . |
| 10 | So everyone will have to settle for Namibia and Romania , who will make a refreshing change but are not expected to challenge the Southern Hemisphere stranglehold on this tournament . |
| 11 | Such an action would have been expected to lower the cyclic AMP content irrespective of the agonist used to stimulate the cells . |
| 12 | However , BA is now expected to announce a revised partnership deal in which it would gain a 20% stake worth about $340m . |
| 13 | NCR is expected to announce a full Unix implementation of its Cooperation office software running on Intel machines at Unix Expo . |
| 14 | This spring , it is also expected to win the third-party policy administration contract for Leeds Life , should Leeds Permanent Building Society decide to set up its own life assurance operation . |
| 15 | The draw , which will divide the 24 qualifiers into groups and determine the nine venues , is expected to draw a worldwide TV audience of more than one billion and be attended by 10,000 dignitaries , soccer officials and media personnel . |
| 16 | It is also expected to use the new 80Mbytes-per-second version of the Micro Channel and to have 16 slots against eight on the 950 . |
| 17 | Those studies utilised a probe with 700 µ diameter optical fibres , however , whereas the probe in the present study had narrower , more closely spaced fibres , and this would be expected to reduce the effective measurement depth . |
| 18 | It has a majority of just 16 in the 630-seat lower house but Mr Amato is expected to call a fresh confidence vote in the next few days to prove he still has parliamentary approval . |
| 19 | After arriving in the late afternoon , she is expected to board a local Liat airline flight for one of the Caribbean islands , with St Kitts emerging as a possible holiday venue . |
| 20 | ATHENS — The Greek President , Christos Sartzetakis , is today expected to name the Supreme Court President , Yannis Grivas , as Premier of a caretaker government until elections on 5 November , writes Peter Thompson . |
| 21 | Sotheby 's will sell another Picasso on 15 November — Au Lapin Agile , from the Pink period — which is widely expected to break the previous price records . |
| 22 | Mr Souness is expected to have a triple bypass operation later today to relieve the narrowing or blocking of his arteries . |
| 23 | For a fixed number of traders , they derived the result that the covariance of squared daily price changes and daily volume is a positive function of the variance of the directing or mixing variable , and this relationship is expected to have a heteroscedastic disturbance term . |
| 24 | For example , brothers and sisters who differ in age share genes to the same extent as dizygotic twins , and so in a purely genetic disease would be expected to have the same concordance rates — but they do not . |
| 25 | I mentioned earlier that American experience suggests that marketing costs can be expected to equal the actual building costs of the unit , and we ought to regard this as the minimum outlay for planning purposes . |
| 26 | Such procedures are right for generating the phenomenon in Wagner 's associative form — a series of widely spaced exposure trials will promote the formation of a context-stimulus association ; and the after-effects of presentation of the target stimulus could not be expected to survive a 24-h retention interval . |
| 27 | British Waterways expect to complete a national feasability study within a year . |
| 28 | Following political pressure in the Congress throughout March 1990 the government was expected to alter the proposed privatization terms of Entel , which was to be divided into two companies . |
| 29 | Just four days after completing a 30-hour journey from Edinburgh to Darwin they were expected to overcome a nine-hour time difference and temperatures in the 90 's to beat a Northern Territories Invitation XV . |
| 30 | THE Republic of Ireland expect to have a full strength team out on Wednesday , they expect to beat Lithuania and they expect to be in the USA for next summer 's World Cup finals . |