Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Every year , we expect public service standards to be ratcheted up . |
| 3 | While the benefits and opportunities presented by distributing tasks and applications across high-performance , inexpensive Unix processors are being realised across the industry , commercial users expect well-proven systems management utilities such as Digital Equipment Corp 's Enterprise Management Architecture and proprietary systems from the likes of IBM Corp . |
| 4 | the thing is , you see , if we do it an American flavour I mean , people expect heavy rock music in an |
| 5 | 3.45:NOT many in with a chance here and I expect recent Fakenham scorer Love Anew and SKIPPING TIM to fight out the finish . |
| 6 | They 're so happy ! — Expect tearful phone calls and suicide attempts . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And without this capacity how can we expect large scale mainframe users to down-size or right-size into open systems . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's no reason at all why you should n't expect good quality work , Julia , ’ David said calmly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One would expect self-selected leisure activities to be different from and complementary to those at work . |
| 13 | Because of transport costs one might expect heavy building materials , such as cement , to be non-traded . |
| 14 | Deutsche Bank Research says it does not expect northern EC members to revalue or devalue their currencies before the introduction of the single European currency . |
| 15 | So long as he taxes spirits in a highly discriminatory fashion at home , he can expect other Member States to follow suit . |
| 16 | As Foresman ( 1986 ) suggests , we might expect remote sensing technology to play a major role . |
| 17 | In this case , individuals will expect the rate to rise in the near future and so will expect potential capital losses for bond-holders . |
| 18 | If the two sets of scores are positively correlated , then we would expect positive Z scores to occur together and similarly negative Z scores should be paired . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Two animal rights campaigners have been told to expect long jail sentences after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson . |
| 21 | A humped yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term interest rates to rise and long-term rates to fall . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Earlier this week the management was confidently expecting firm production orders within a matter of days . |
| 25 | Again I was expecting military style spick and span . |
| 26 | The MLC expects European pig prices to fall further this summer , before recovering in the autumn , when there are fewer pigs on the market . |
| 27 | NEC Corp expects personal computer shipments in 1993-94 to increase by 10% to 1.37m units as a result of the government 's increased spending on computers for schools and public institutions : according to Reuter , NEC sees its personal computer sales rising in the second half of the fiscal when public institutions start to introduce the machines ; in the year to March , NEC 's personal computer shipments were down by 5% . |
| 28 | After all , this is a heavy , man-sized aircraft , so one expects he-man control forces . |
| 29 | ANZ McCaughan 's Alastair Irvine expects dramatic profit progress from £1.8m to £8.4m in the year just ended and then to £12m this year . |
| 30 | Olivetti will continue to supply Hitachi Ltd mainframes in Italy , though it expects top-of-the-range Alpha systems to take sales away from the Japanese kit . |