Example sentences of "[pron] expects [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include a responsibility to staff who depend on their employers for a decent standard of living and a responsibility to the customer who expects a decent service . |
| 2 | No one expects an economic system to produce absolute justice . |
| 3 | No one expects the Prime Minister to be here to vote on Friday 14 February , but will he tell the House and the country whether he supports the abolition of fox hunting , deer hunting and hare coursing ? |
| 4 | But no-one expects a quick rally , and forecasts for 1993 growth range from 0.2 per cent to 2.0 , with underlying inflation ranging from 3.1 per cent to 4.8 per cent , base rates between 4.5 per cent and 6 per cent , and the PSBR anywhere from £40 billion to £55 billion . |
| 5 | No-one expects a 36-hour strike to deter him . |
| 6 | He expects a similar situation with Alpha , but says the company has just signed its first large contract in the US . |
| 7 | He wants to come in , but a glance up to the bridge tells me he expects a vast crowd to appear out of nowhere , the minute he strips naked . |
| 8 | THE Home Secretary has told colleagues that he expects a fresh Commons debate on the death penalty before the next election and that he would speak and vote for its restoration as a deterrent for some murders . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy at current trends , how much plutonium he expects the thermal oxide reprocessing plant to have produced by the year 2000 . |
| 10 | He expects the experimental error to fall to 1 per cent . |
| 11 | The spectator is not interested in the rise and fall of fortunes ; he expects the transient image of certain passions . |
| 12 | Will he also tell us when he expects the nuclear levy , which is still rising , to start to fall in the light of this morning 's results from Nuclear Electric ? |
| 13 | It expects a non-Russian contractor to be commissioned soon to construct an international terminal at Domodeovo . |
| 14 | ‘ He says the whole army is unsettled because it 's known that Famagusta will never give up while it expects a relieving ship to arrive . |
| 15 | It expects a slow take-up of server versions of the operating system , and forecasts NT will take a 6.5% share of all server systems sold in Europe by 1996 . |
| 16 | It expects the standard server version of NT , sold at retail , to support its technology . |
| 17 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |
| 18 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it expects ‘ considerable improvement in profits in 1993 ’ : it expects the strong order intake seen last year to continue despite a recession and notes that orders for Ericsson 's mobile systems , which grew by 58% in 1992 , are expected to grow by around 60% in the current quarter . |
| 19 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 20 | It expects the commercial market to grow to $20.8b by 1996 with 25% accounted for by Unix OLTP solutions and a further 25% by Unix OLTP solutions with a TP monitor . |