Example sentences of "[pron] expect [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to lie awake for hours . |
| 2 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 3 | The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation . |
| 4 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |
| 5 | As its performance continue to improve , we expect to see growing private sector interest in purchasing it outright . |
| 6 | We expect to stimulate significant improvements in NHS performance , particularly on waiting times , as a result . |
| 7 | As a country , how can we expect to attract inward investment and have the confidence of overseas investors if we hear such remarks from Labour Members ? |
| 8 | Can we expect to achieve sufficient political agreement to formulate the necessary dispute-resolving rules in an ideologically divided world , even if the avowed intention is to establish rules which are neutral as between such ideologies , the acceptance of which would not be taken as manifesting more than a commitment to getting some agreed rules ? |
| 9 | European heads of government from Moscow to Madrid showered telegrams of congratulation on Clinton , saying they expected to maintain good ties with Washington . |
| 10 | Where kids become worldly-wise with such rapidity , it is easy for a certain laissez-faire to creep in ; they expect to have unbridled access to everything , and in the long run this is not doing any favours to either party concerned . |
| 11 | They expect to attract other PTTs and RBOCs . |
| 12 | They expect to feel comfortable , secure and unselfconscious as they do so . |
| 13 | Now they expect to make significant inroads in patient waiting time . |
| 14 | Then , by a slow , gradual process , they get to a point where they expect to find ritual sexual abuse in the community in which they are working . ’ |
| 15 | He expected to fall asleep quickly , but his heart would not let him . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea welcomed the recent progress in relations between the two states , and on July 6 suggested that he expected to see Korean reunification achieved within five years . |
| 17 | It was a calculated guess but sooner or later he expected to hit lucky , and here on the fringe of a large private estate the chances were better than anywhere . |
| 18 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to have available ( a ) information on the United Kingdom gross domestic product per head in 1991 and ( b ) comparable information for the other member states of the European Community . |
| 19 | He expects to have organic chickens for £1.25 per lb and pork for £1.20 a lb . |
| 20 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues . |
| 21 | Milpitas-based Adaptec Inc is making hay with its disk controllers from the boom in personal computer sales generated by the price war , and says it expects to report net profit of about $50m , 1.90 per share for its fiscal year to March 31 1993 , on sales more than double last year 's $150.3m . |
| 22 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 23 | The company remains committed to worldwide annual spending of about $5 billion in 1993 and 1994 on projects which it expects to yield good returns in future , even if present lacklustre oil market conditions persist . |
| 24 | It expects to have early silicon of UltraSparc-I in the fourth quarter of next year . |
| 25 | It expects to have early silicon of UltraSparc-I in the fourth quarter of next year . |
| 26 | Ed Zschau , chief executive of IBM Corp 's AdStar subsidiary , says the company plans to become known as a consumer products company as well as the leader in commercial storage products , and would pursue all of the market opportunities in which it could offer unique products ; he says AdStar aims to become the lowest cost producer in the industry , taking advantage of its technology , scale and commitment to quality ; speaking at the product launch in San Jose , he said that AdStar would also become known , more than it is today , as a software company ; it expects to have personal computer-oriented products in the retail market before the end of the year . |
| 27 | When a new government takes office and opens the Defence books , it expects to find ample room for change and improvement . |
| 28 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94 , with zero net profit . |
| 29 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993–94 , with zero net profit . |
| 30 | And Oracle is already talking about Oracle 8 , which it expects to add object-oriented extensions to SQL and due to be announced in December of next year . |