Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | German businessmen take a much more cheerful view of their economy than currency traders , who have lately driven the D-mark down : the balance of German companies expecting sales to rise over those expecting sales to fall is 69% , the widest margin in the chart . |
| 2 | Some MPs expect Mr Lamont to widen the 20p income tax band introduced last year from the first £2,000 of earnings to £3,000 . |
| 3 | That was sufficient because the early Christians expected Jesus to return immediately and set up the reign of God on earth . |
| 4 | As far as Hewitt is concerned , at the very least guests expect cleanliness at a good price . |
| 5 | These companies expected Speywood to spend their £4 million investment on perfecting and marketing blood proteins from conventional technology — not funding new biotechnology projects . |
| 6 | LARGE investors expect London share prices to fall still further , some by as much as 20 per cent , after yesterday 's sharp drop on the stock market . |
| 7 | Domestic prices , only three regions expect prices to increase by a meaningful amount . |
| 8 | These systems expect data to be presented to them in terms of relations and normally present results to users in the form of relations . |
| 9 | Many forecasters expect France 's economy to grow by only 1.5% in 1991 , down from 4% in both 1988 and 1989 and from an estimated 2.6% last year . |
| 10 | The analysis shows 31 p.c. of financial institutions expect business volumes to increase in the present three-month period , against 17 p.c. forecasting a fall . |
| 11 | Mexicans are the cheeriest : comparing optimists and pessimists , a net 76% of Mexican businessmen expect sales to rise in the second quarter of this year , compared with 69% in the first quarter . |
| 12 | The fact that a significant number of the independents who were elected were DLP sympathizers who had failed to secure party endorsement as candidates , meant that most observers expected Roh to be able to construct a working majority within the new Assembly . |
| 13 | Most observers expect Barbara McDougall to be impressive at External Affairs , after her apprenticeship with the immigration portfolio and as a junior finance minister . |
| 14 | At an annual rate , GDP grew by just 1.8% in the first quarter of the year ; most commentators expect growth for the year to be no more than 2.5% , if that . |
| 15 | THE City is braced for further nervous trading in both currencies and shares this week but most analysts expect interest rates to stay at 15 per cent despite yesterday 's slump in the value of the pound . |