Example sentences of "expects [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DB Research , an affiliate of Deutsche Bank , expects component prices to fall by 5–10% this year and volumes to drop by 12–15% . |
| 2 | When children die , allegedly at the hands of parents or those responsible for their care , society expects responsibility to be allocated , and penalties paid . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects TASM to be in service ; and where they will be based . |
| 4 | The firm , which originally used Sparcstations to design systems integration solutions , expects clone sales to boost its revenues by 50% from £3m last year to £6m this year . |
| 5 | The firm , which originally used Sparcstations to integrate turnkey systems , expects clone sales to boost its revenues by 100% to £6m this year from £3m last year . |
| 6 | What I do n't want is a man who takes me out for a meal , buys a bottle of cheap plonk and expects payment in the form of instant sex , either in the back of his car , or if he gets really lucky , in my flat . |
| 7 | The retailer also expects support and this was visibly given . |
| 8 | That may be true in general , but the other side of the coin is that Britain expects change in return , and puts on tremendous pressure to get that change , ’ one official said . |
| 9 | Based on current business levels and industry conditions , it expects turnover for the 1993 fiscal year to June 30 to be be between $1,250m and $1,300m . |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear . |
| 11 | Nobody expects Brigadoon with tartan-skirted villagers singing softly as they fill your arms with sweet heather and invite you in to their fireside . |
| 12 | PARALLAN COMPUTER EXPECTS FALL IN SHIPMENTS |
| 13 | Sun expects Dragon to plough through the logjam holding back diffident customers from committing to Unix because pricey Unix servers ca n't handle the load . |
| 14 | It expects profitability to remain under pressure , despite recent restructuring actions aimed at achieving $50m in annual cost savings . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects work to commence on upgrading the A12 Chelmsford bypass from a two-lane to a three-lane road . |
| 16 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 17 | Among DIY and hardware retailers , only one in a hundred expects business to get better in the next three months . |
| 18 | Only confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic : every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months . |
| 19 | Among DIY and hardware retailers , only one in a hundred expects business to get better in the next three months . |
| 20 | Only confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic : every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months . |
| 21 | At first his manner is reserved and defensive ; there is an attitude that suggests he expects rebuke and is ready to fight . |
| 22 | In another change of tack — there was a time when OS/2 was the whole future as far as the company was concerned , Microsoft Corp is switching its signals and is now making it clear that it expects MS-DOS users to prepare to switch to Windows NT . |
| 23 | One expects durability to be a hallmark of highly specific assets . |
| 24 | Informix expects development to take between two and three years to complete . |
| 25 | New hope as cult ‘ expects sign from God' |
| 26 | By contrast , the panel expects output in continental Europe to tumble by 1% this year . |
| 27 | Oops : now the OECD expects output there to shrink by 1.9% . |
| 28 | David the chief economist of Nat West Bank expects output to rise by only point six percent this year . |
| 29 | ‘ Aye , Aah expects thoo 's right , ’ her husband rejoined . |
| 30 | Olivetti , which supplies personal computers to DEC , expects Alpha and Intel Corp processors will each account for 35% of its hardware sales from 1995 , computer printers will account for 20% and other products 10% . |