Example sentences of "[pers pn] expects [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He expects a similar situation with Alpha , but says the company has just signed its first large contract in the US .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects the higher standards of residual stability recommended by the steering committee of the roll on/roll off ferry safety research programme to be applied to all roll on/roll off ferries using British ports .
5 Ake Lundqvist , an Ericsson senior vice-president , told Reuters that he expects the greatest growth to be in Japan with an additional 1m units sold .
6 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 .
7 He expects the experimental error to fall to 1 per cent .
8 The spectator is not interested in the rise and fall of fortunes ; he expects the transient image of certain passions .
9 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 ?
10 It expects a non-Russian contractor to be commissioned soon to construct an international terminal at Domodeovo .
11 It expects a smaller invisibles surplus than before , but the forecasters are a lot more optimistic about visible trade : exports are booming .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 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 .
14 It expects the standard server version of NT , sold at retail , to support its technology .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
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