Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! ! |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , I have no right to expect a present , as I have n't done anything to deserve one . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It will also put you on notice to expect a commission account after contracts are exchanged . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've warned the duty undertaker to expect a body . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The psalmist expects a response that is physical as he invites the worshippers : |
| 13 | • Next year , new public registers or contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act will be opened , and the Department of the Environment expects an increase in public pressure for sites to be cleaned up . |
| 14 | Seven of the eight are well known Black communities and the sites read like a civil servant 's check list of those places where the state expected an uprising ( excluding those with Inner City Partnerships already present ) , yet no race specific dimension was added to their brief . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well , one day I opened the door expecting a customer and there were three strangers . |
| 17 | Half the crowd expect a punk band and half are curious old gits who remember organ bands the first time around . |
| 18 | If this is not true , then there is no longer any reason to expect a tendency towards equality between the real wage and the marginal disutility of labour . |
| 19 | He answered that he had gone too far now and that the Country expected a dissolution . |
| 20 | The biggest error of all was for investment ; the Treasury expected a fall in volume terms of under 1% , but in the event it fell by 12% . |
| 21 | Our intention was to fly low level VFR into French airspace , climb onto airways VFR , then , as we were expecting to catch up a cold front around Limoges , refile IFR and continue to our destination expecting an IFR approach with a reported cloud base of 600 to 800 ft . |
| 22 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 23 | Currently , the spread is about ten points , suggesting that the market expects a default rate of about 10% . |
| 24 | The market expects a jump in profits from £3.4m to £4.2m pre-tax this year and news of further contract awards , together with a few senior management appointments , is expected soon . |
| 25 | The module name specified is known to LIFESPAN ( as a SOURCE or FOREIGN ) but LIFESPAN expects a PACKAGE ( or product ) . |