Example sentences of "expect to win " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can not simply change the face at the top and expect to win in 1996 on the programme on which we lost in 1992 . |
| 2 | Spokesman Ken Lawrence said : ‘ Despite what has been written in TODAY , we still expect to win the vote . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't give three goals away like that and expect to win the match , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 . |
| 6 | By holding stock in a company , they expect to win the business of insuring its employees . |
| 7 | ‘ Our backs were disappointing in some respects against Monaghan , ’ he chides , ‘ We gave away two goals within a couple of minutes and you simply can not do that and expect to win championship matches — it 's not just on . ’ |
| 8 | They bomb the airfields and we shoot down their bombers , lots of young men die but we expect to win . |
| 9 | The Liberal Democrats have built up strong support and expect to win . |
| 10 | But that debate and subsequent decision has been put off until October , when supporters of ban expect to win . |
| 11 | It 's all down to hard work at every level of the sport , but anytime Kilkenny get to a final they expect to win . |
| 12 | ‘ When a team wins ten games they expect to win . |
| 13 | ‘ But you simply can not make tackling errors at crucial times and expect to win . ’ |
| 14 | Despite Parkes 's defection , Birmingham are expected to win their opening match away to Hampshire North , who finished sixth in the league last year . |
| 15 | Surrey , who finished third last year , are expected to win their home match against Cheshire , the other promoted side . |
| 16 | Mr Gonzalez 's party is expected to win 41 percent of the vote , with the conservative Popular Party a distant second at 23 per cent . |
| 17 | Calder , who had been expected to win his 22nd consecutive cap , feels he is short of fitness having spent September fulfilling a number of engagements in the aftermath of the tour . |
| 18 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 19 | Mr Goddard , a former mayor of Phoenix who had been expected to win the November race easily , first lowered the tone by comparing Mr Symington to Charles Keating , the financier at the heart of the Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster . |
| 20 | Buster Watson was expected to win the 100 metres , but I came through and clocked 10.4 seconds for a personal best and a county record , which still stands . |
| 21 | Ardiles said : ‘ We know the pressure is on us because we are expected to win . |
| 22 | Clinton was also expected to win Kentucky , another key state , with 44 per cent of the vote , a two per cent lead over Bush . |
| 23 | ‘ In France the local side is expected to win , hence the intensity of the reaction ’ , said Goodall . |
| 24 | Mr Yeltsin had been expected to win the referendum , but not resoundingly . |
| 25 | The Basque nationalists are currently expected to win half a dozen of the 350 seats in the lower house of the Cortes ; the two-party Catalan nationalist alliance , Convergence and Union , could get 17 to 19 . |
| 26 | It is now possible to have eight or nine merely average international players functioning as a support unit for the one or two stars who will be expected to win the games with a decisive intervention . |
| 27 | Under the Commission 's system the region would have had 30 constituency seats of which , given similar hypothetical patterns of voting , the Liberals , Labour and the Conservatives might have been expected to win none , two and 28 respectively . |
| 28 | Sajudis ( the " Popular Front for Perestroika " ) had been expected to win decisively in the elections to the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet . |
| 29 | Two weeks before the end of her trial , Winnie Mandela experienced what commentators treated as a major political setback when she was heavily defeated in elections for the national presidency of the ANC women 's league , which she had earlier been expected to win unchallenged . |
| 30 | They were n't expected to win at Franklin Gardens , but then again Gloucester are at their best when the challenge is toughest . |