Example sentences of "expects [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rightly or wrongly the patient expects little more than perhaps ten minutes of the doctor 's time . |
| 2 | The kitchen 's perception of the restaurant manager is also fragmented in that the kitchen expects that manager to feed back customer response . |
| 3 | Luckily we killed it before it became a full-blown institution and today no one seriously expects that food , or clothing , or even that overriding necessity , a television set , should be subsidised for all consumers , still less for a minority . |
| 4 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |
| 5 | Anyone who is offering a proposal that requires a " yes " effort should be clear as to why he expects that effort to be made . |
| 6 | The NUS expects that core activities such as welfare services , accommodation and catering will be retained as functions directly paid for by college authorities . |
| 7 | John Tiller expects each of his pupils to do her duty in keeping the Tiller standard flying high and white . |
| 8 | It therefore has a surprise effect on the reader who expects each new clause to move the discourse forward . |
| 9 | Richards expects some interesting clashes , saying : ‘ Danny Warner props against two England men , John Olver and Gary Pearce , and Dick Malone jumps against Martin Bayfield . |
| 10 | Robertson expects some software vendors — the Oracles and Informixes of the world — to licence the relevant ANDF producer and generate ANDF versions of applications themselves , with some support from Praxis or OSF . |
| 11 | The firm works to relatively short product life-cycles , but still expects some learning to occur . |
| 12 | If one buys a house near a railway line , one expects some disturbance from it , and that is a factor which will no doubt be reflected in the price . |
| 13 | The company hopes for some voluntary redundancy , but expects some will be compulsory . |
| 14 | Investing heavily in eastern Germany and more cautiously in Hungary and Czechoslovakia , it expects another good showing from Germany in 1992 as housebuilding progresses despite economic slowdown . |
| 15 | Within the next 20–25 years Anglian expects another nine supplies to go over the limit . |
| 16 | Daum expects another upset . |
| 17 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |
| 18 | anyone who expects this book to be a treatise on the history of landscape painting will be disappointed … in spite of copious rewriting , lectures these pages remain . |
| 19 | Its chairman , Michael Cannon , said yesterday that he relished the challenge of buying between 400 and 600 pubs , mostly in the Midlands and North , from the big brewers for between £250,000 and £300,000 , and expects this to take three months . |
| 20 | No one expects this rump of a service to be viable . |
| 21 | Last year it sold 2,000 properties ; it expects this year 's total to reach 3,500 . |
| 22 | In fact , the interpreter expects this because of his training and the need to understand the message . |
| 23 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 24 | Harris Corp 's current mix of home-grown to purchased products is around 80:20 but over the next three to five years , O'Donnell expects this ratio to be reversed . |
| 25 | Potter expects this operation to show further growth and increased profits over the coming year . |
| 26 | In 1992 , VAX-related revenues made up 70% of total group turnover , but Turner expects this to drop to 60% in 1993 as AS/400 business continues to grow . |
| 27 | While worldwide , he anticipates that revenues will increase by between 15% and 20% , he expects this to be more like 27% to 30% in the UK . |
| 28 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 29 | Suppose a person has an increase in W u , but expects this to be later offset by a reduction , so that Cu is not changed . |
| 30 | By 1994 , he expects this to grow to over US$24 billion . |