Example sentences of "it expect [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 2 | Borland International Inc reports ‘ strong initial reception ’ to its long-delayed Windows version of Paradox , and says it expects to report profits of 10 cents a share for its fourth quarter to March 31 , double the average analyst forecast ; Microsoft Corp said it had sold about 700,000 copies of its new Access database program , and Borland says that its Paradox for Windows has done about as well . |
| 3 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 4 | Microsoft did n't fail to make the point that it expects to take market share away from Novell because NT includes networking while at the same time trouncing Unix . |
| 5 | It expects to prune £4m from education . |
| 6 | Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half . |
| 7 | NCube Inc , Foster City , California says that it expects to win agreement within three months for one of Japan 's Big Three mainframe manufacturers to start marketing its massively parallel machines , and suggests that Siemens AG may also adopt them for marketing in Europe . |
| 8 | It expects to get venture funding of $2m–$4m over the summer when it will start shipping . |
| 9 | It expects to get venture funding of $2m to $4m over the summer when it will start shipping . |
| 10 | Despite a slump in the company 's margins , Bear Stearns & Co. raised its investment rating of Apple Computer Inc to ‘ strong buy ’ from ‘ buy ’ following the company 's fiscal second-quarter earnings report — figures , page five : analyst Andy Neff says he made the change because concern about Apple 's results was overdone ; commenting on the figures , Apple says it expects to resume growth — in earnings , revenue , unit sales , and market share — in the second half of its fiscal year , saying that the fall in profit was down to pricing pressures , the costs of new product launches , and a constraint in supplies needed for manufacturing , the latter two drains being short-term ; he noted that despite supply constraints , second quarter unit growth was up over 70% in its Powerbook notebook computers , while total Macintosh unit growth was up over 385 ; the European market continues to be slow , but sales in Japan are leading the way for continued growth of the Apple Pacific business unit ; gross margin was 38.5% of net sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1993 , down from 44.0% a year ago . |
| 11 | It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis . |
| 12 | Speaking at ICL 's Software Open Show in Birmingham in the UK last week , Unify said it expects to launch Accell/TP and Accell/Object next month . |
| 13 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |
| 14 | WaveLAN is also approved for use in Switzerland , and NCR says that it expects to gain approval in France next month , with other countries following afterwards . |
| 15 | But Cadbury Schweppes , which last month completed the £141m purchase of Crush International from Procter & Gamble , says the brand values being acquired justified the price and it expects to find synergy benefits with its own extensive bottling operations in Spain and Portugal . |
| 16 | Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors . |
| 17 | Although Bellcore says it expects to finalise Release 1 by 1995 , Ovum reckons it will not be available until 1997 . |