Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We , we now think it 's appropriate to strike a medium balance , therefore we 'll get the de-loan stock interest up to ninety three , we 'll take in , in this year , which we expect to get next year . |
| 32 | ‘ We expect to win more line-out ball — an area that has been our undoing in the past — and we are all now encouraged to think for ourselves . |
| 33 | We expect to secure more work in 1993 for specialist areas of activity in particular with HV Fox and Satellite DGPS and there will be closer operational links with Aberdeen . |
| 34 | 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 ? |
| 35 | 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 ? |
| 36 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 37 | European heads of government from Moscow to Madrid showered telegrams of congratulation on Clinton , saying they expected to maintain good ties with Washington . |
| 38 | They expect to sell 800,000 of their £70 Game Boys in Britain alone this year . |
| 39 | During that time , police say they expect to issue hundreds of summonses . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | They expect to attract other PTTs and RBOCs . |
| 42 | They expect to feel comfortable , secure and unselfconscious as they do so . |
| 43 | Now they expect to make significant inroads in patient waiting time . |
| 44 | 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 . ’ |
| 45 | He expected to fall asleep quickly , but his heart would not let him . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 50 | Kinnear , who said he expected to make one more signing this week-end , looked forward to Jones the manager with a wry smile . |
| 51 | The bonus erm he only got two and a half grand last year , is he expecting to get some this year and if so what does he normally do with the money . |
| 52 | He expects to organize all the surprises — that 's the way it 's been until now . ’ |
| 53 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the most important international non-EC meetings which he expects to attend this year . |
| 54 | He expects to raise more money from a small corporations which will pay for 12 months research and development work at the abandoned well . |
| 55 | ‘ John is gone across the Liverpool Plains to the Namoi ’ , wrote Eliza to her mother on 6 December from Yarrundi , ‘ he expects to find much to interest him there . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | He expects to have organic chickens for £1.25 per lb and pork for £1.20 a lb . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |