Example sentences of "[noun] expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woking manager Geoff Chapple said the club expected a gate of up to 3,000 for tomorrow 's home fixture with Kingstonian . |
| 2 | But theatre-goers expecting a regulation production of Measure for Measure at Chester 's Gateway Theatre will be in for a surprise this is in modern dress . |
| 3 | Until the mid-80s , such funds were discouraged by both the Charity Commissioners and the Inland Revenue , but now , as the rules are changed , the industry expects a flood of them with managers aggressively promoting them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Jewish law expected a boy to get married between the age of thirteen and eighteen to a Jewish girl aged twelve-and-a-half to fifteen ! ! |
| 6 | SEVERAL areas expecting a share of a £100 million EC aid package may be excluded because of what MPs claim is a bureaucratic muddle , the Government conceded yesterday . |
| 7 | Industry observers expected a deal only after the result of the general election was known . |
| 8 | Only when Helen and Tony told him that Helen expected a baby before Christmas did he seem to come out of his stupor of misery . |
| 9 | Not only did the mourners expect a meal but there was also the priest 's fee , plus an appropriate ‘ donation ’ to church funds . |
| 10 | It may be early days to expect a consensus to emerge less than two weeks after the group was established , and it is now too late to forge a common front to influence the Budget . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , I have no right to expect a present , as I have n't done anything to deserve one . ’ |
| 12 | Their parents had travelled thousands of miles , from all parts of the globe , to make a new home in quiet England , safe among the ashes of empire , only to have their children greeted by Mr Malik , a man more exotic than any schoolboy had a right to expect a teacher to be . |
| 13 | MIPS expects a number of its OEMs to pick up the new ARCsystems including CDC , Tandem and government integrator AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies which will put its System V/Multi-Level Secure Unix on the boxes . |
| 14 | Tunney had just slipped into his Richie Quick projection and gone indream expecting a swiftkick runaround the cliche track with a preordained victory at the end . |
| 15 | The SSD expected a demand for advocates to accompany mothers to child protection conferences . |
| 16 | To illustrate the combination of speculative and portfolio adjustment effects that are embodied in relative returns it is useful to analyse the changes that would arise if wealth and turnover are held constant and investors expect a rise of 1% in the relative return on UK investments in both the current and following quarters due to an expected exchange rate appreciation . |
| 17 | THE Government was warned last night to expect a rebuff as the Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel prepared to ballot members on a deal rejected by the five TUC-affiliated unions for ambulance staff . |
| 18 | Perhaps Mr Lloyd expects a non-smoker to abstain from breathing while in the vicinity of tobacco smoke . |
| 19 | For example , suppose that last year people expected a rate of inflation this year of 10 per cent ; if the actual rate turns out to be 16 per cent , the expectation will have been in error by 6 per cent . |
| 20 | ‘ People expect a service and we always try to help , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ Many people expect a standard from members of the Royal Family , which they do n't expect from their own families . |
| 22 | ‘ Some people expect a movie to be more than entertaining if they go and just laugh all the way through , they think there 's something wrong . |
| 23 | Time and empathy are often lacking in the doctor-patient encounter ; high-tech medicine sometimes turns patients into numbers labelled with a diagnosis ; and since many diseases have become curable , some patients expect a cure for all ailments . |
| 24 | It will also put you on notice to expect a commission account after contracts are exchanged . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've warned the duty undertaker to expect a body . ’ |
| 26 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 27 | Police closed off streets all around the area , with more than 5,000 people expecting a glimpse of their heroes . |
| 28 | The psalmist expects a response that is physical as he invites the worshippers : |
| 29 | At least he behaved as Khrushchev expected a capitalist to behave , as a ‘ chained cur of imperialism ’ . |
| 30 | In 1990 the government expected a growth in imports of 25 per cent , so that exports would need to grow by 15 per cent in order to limit the fall in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990 to 2 per cent . |