Example sentences of "expects [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kew is currently negotiating OEM deals with DEC and IBM in the UK on behalf of Alpharetta , Georgia-based Raidtec : it expects signatures next year . |
| 2 | Quality expects rewards , experience makes comparisons . |
| 3 | Sampson ( broken bone in hand ) and Anderson ( back ) may cause bigger problems but Mr Van de Velde made it clear he expects improvements from a side who were unbeaten this year until after the semi-final . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects exports to reach the same level as imports . |
| 5 | InfoCorp expects shipments of multiuser systems with an average selling price between $15,000 and $1m to grow from 509,000 units in 1992 to 643,000 units in 1997 — a compound annual growth rate of 6% . |
| 6 | That has begun shipping to members , and SAG optimistically expects products complying to the specification to be around by the end of year . |
| 7 | He expects Germans , Japanese and anyone else who has not sent forces to contribute to a ‘ war chest ’ . |
| 8 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 9 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 10 | That is , I think , the task which the Home Secretary expects judges to perform when he asks for their advice on the requirements of retribution and deterrence , and the task which the judges do perform . |
| 11 | Customs expects companies to be able to satisfactorily explain why — and has incorporated into the Intrastat system an optional means of so doing . |
| 12 | Although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 13 | NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR EXPECTS MARGINS TO IMPROVE |
| 14 | Still , although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 15 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |
| 16 | Tin is a metal and somehow everybody expects metals to be strong . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Asia Equity , a securities firm , expects earnings to increase by only 1% in 1993 , though it is looking for 16% growth in 1994 after the lights come back on . |
| 19 | And the British Tourist Authority expects figures to rise as our recent warm summers , the effects of the recession and the threat of airport delays encourage more and more people to holiday at home rather than abroad . |
| 20 | Chairman Martin Anderson , 43 , expects customers to leapfrog into New World , a new form of software that Softwright is developing with IBM . |
| 21 | The bulk of domiciliary care is already provided by families , but Mrs Thatcher has made it plain that she expects families to take on extra responsibilities , and this is also apparent in the White Paper on Caring for People . |
| 22 | It now expects profits of £225m against earlier hopes of £243m . |
| 23 | He expects profits to dip this year from the estimated £580m in the year just ended but reach £645m next year . |
| 24 | He expects profits this year of £135m and has pencilled in £150m for next year . |
| 25 | This does not mean that SCOTVEC also expects centres to adopt BS 5750 . |
| 26 | Nobody expects councillors to be able to do sums involving three hundred and fifteen or fourteen million erm without professional help , just like any business would expect to use professional help for that . |
| 27 | Contradictions in a system which expects players to concentrate on football , yet not be paid ( unless you count scholarships ? ) are causing increasing problems . |
| 28 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 29 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 30 | ‘ Society expects children to do something most adults would find terrifying — give details of the most intimate obscenities performed on them in front of court officials , the public and the media and often their abusers . |