Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a budget report presented in mid-1990 , the Minister of Finance , Kinza Clodumar , said that he expected that phosphate royalties would drop by A$10,000,000 from the 1989-90 figure of A$25,000,000 . |
| 2 | We expected little advertising support for the first effort in our new format but it came anyway on the strength of our description . |
| 3 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 4 | As the contraction programmes already announced take effect , we expect that employee numbers will continue to fall . |
| 5 | However , if investors expect short-term interest rates to fall in the future they will wish to buy long-dated bonds today , thereby locking themselves into today 's long rates . |
| 6 | It was also expected that government spending would be cut by 10 per cent , that state companies would be privatized and that sales taxes would be increased . |
| 7 | It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful . |
| 8 | Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks . |
| 9 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 10 | It was expected that input data would be transcribed to the magnetic wire by a process which did not involve the computer , and similarly for output . |
| 11 | Although the advantage of real volume planning , an assured outcome , is lost by the new technique , it was expected that cash planning would mean that government expenditure could more easily be related to expected government revenue . |
| 12 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |
| 13 | I 'd expected some Chart Show clothes horses purveying diluted Techno , not an androgynous keyboardist , a commanding dancer and the mad hatter MC who 'd just as soon sing the praises of spliff as he 'd stare out the crowd , bug-eyes in effect . |
| 14 | Every year , we expect public service standards to be ratcheted up . |
| 15 | When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent . |
| 16 | The predictions co-incided with a survey by the recruitment firm , Manpower , which shows that Scotland — along with the west of England , Yorkshire and Humberside — is one of the few areas where employers expect better job prospects in the spring . |
| 17 | Yet even at university , it may well still be a minority of departments that expect all mathematics students to use computers as a matter of course ; indeed , some people fear that higher education will be the phase most resistant to new IT , rather than the one that provides a strong lead . |
| 18 | MIDDLESBROUGH expect 10,000 season ticket holders to back their Premier League campaign . |
| 19 | the thing is , you see , if we do it an American flavour I mean , people expect heavy rock music in an |
| 20 | ‘ You expect more press interest even after the conference ? |
| 21 | They 're so happy ! — Expect tearful phone calls and suicide attempts . |
| 22 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 23 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 24 | Page 27 Buoyant Borland : Borland International said it expected second quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 25 | This view of the role of voluntary organisations and of their relationships with local authorities is endorsed in the White Paper which states that the government ‘ will expect public funding agencies to develop an increasingly contractual relationship with the voluntary bodies they fund ’ . |
| 26 | Merseytravel finance director John Wilkinson said he did not now expect another toll increase to be even considered for another 12 months . |
| 27 | It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays . |
| 28 | And without this capacity how can we expect large scale mainframe users to down-size or right-size into open systems . |
| 29 | ‘ We do expect these interest rate cuts to be passed on as quickly as possible . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's no reason at all why you should n't expect good quality work , Julia , ’ David said calmly . |