Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred and fifty thousand people are expected to attend a spectacular music festival over the weekend . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , BA is now expected to announce a revised partnership deal in which it would gain a 20% stake worth about $340m . |
| 5 | NCR is expected to announce a full Unix implementation of its Cooperation office software running on Intel machines at Unix Expo . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Souness is expected to have a triple bypass operation later today to relieve the narrowing or blocking of his arteries . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | British Waterways expect to complete a national feasability study within a year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Estimated in excess of £200,000 , the wedding suit of James , Duke of York , later James II of England , is expected to achieve a new world record for any item of costume at auction . |
| 16 | FORMER Notts pace bowler Kevin Cooper is expected to sign a one year contract with Gloucestershire . |
| 17 | Before going to Beijing , on Oct. 7 Patten was expected to make a key policy speech to the Hong Kong legislative council , reports said . |
| 18 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 19 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 20 | The company is looking for a comprehensive data management system for its database and expects to develop a third party relationship to meet its requirements . |
| 21 | It expects to present a new business plan to its board by the end of the month . |