Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | As the contraction programmes already announced take effect , we expect that employee numbers will continue to fall . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks . |
| 6 | Every year , we expect public service standards to be ratcheted up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They 're so happy ! — Expect tearful phone calls and suicide attempts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | One would expect existing sentence patterns to be stabilised in use , and to be only minimally disturbed upon being combined to form more complex syntactic units . |
| 16 | One would expect self-selected leisure activities to be different from and complementary to those at work . |
| 17 | Because of transport costs one might expect heavy building materials , such as cement , to be non-traded . |
| 18 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 19 | I hope the current wage negotiations will shortly come to a satisfactory conclusion , ’ said Hartington , adding a warning to owners that they must expect higher training fees to permit lads to be properly paid . |
| 20 | So long as he taxes spirits in a highly discriminatory fashion at home , he can expect other Member States to follow suit . |
| 21 | In this case , individuals will expect the rate to rise in the near future and so will expect potential capital losses for bond-holders . |
| 22 | Is it realistic to expect junior house officers to admit to their consultants that they are overburdened when their career progression depends on getting a good reference ? |
| 23 | If people come to expect that interest rates will normally be higher than they used to be , then any given interest rate will seem lower relative to the ‘ normal ’ rate than it used to be . |
| 24 | Two animal rights campaigners have been told to expect long jail sentences after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson . |
| 25 | Pupils at the new schools would have to expect longer working days and longer terms than at maintained schools . |
| 26 | A humped yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term interest rates to rise and long-term rates to fall . |
| 27 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
| 28 | Anne was sort of expecting blubbery cabinet ministers and worn clergymen , slavering and ready to practise their secret vices , but the guests turned out to be unidentifiable nobodies . |
| 29 | The implication that ‘ easy money ’ was made available to some fundholders was reinforced by reports in January 1992 that some were expecting six figure savings from their hospital treatment budgets by the end of the financial year . |
| 30 | Earlier this week the management was confidently expecting firm production orders within a matter of days . |