Example sentences of "expects [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yet Mr. Bowden does not know how much money he has raised , but expects the final total to be well over £250 . |
| 2 | No one expects the Prime Minister to be here to vote on Friday 14 February , but will he tell the House and the country whether he supports the abolition of fox hunting , deer hunting and hare coursing ? |
| 3 | Sales have already been made to Abu Dhabi and Egypt and for several other projects in Saudi Arabia , and ESP expects the Middle East to be an increasingly important market for their products and services in the future . |
| 4 | The spectator is not interested in the rise and fall of fortunes ; he expects the transient image of certain passions . |
| 5 | The Channel Tunnel Research Unit at the University of Kent is also cautious in its assessment and expects the direct impact of the Tunnel to be marginal . |
| 6 | Extending this principle a little further , each one of these types expects a certain reaction from their chosen victim — perhaps terror , disgust , humiliation or just stunned silence . |
| 7 | The department expects a general location for the new settlement to be included in the approved plan . |
| 8 | It expects a non-Russian contractor to be commissioned soon to construct an international terminal at Domodeovo . |
| 9 | He expects a similar situation with Alpha , but says the company has just signed its first large contract in the US . |
| 10 | Hence the Council expects a significant proportion of staff involved in teaching of courses leading to its awards to be engaged in research ; moreover , colleges are expected to provide a high standard of specialized accommodation , library provision , academic , technical and administrative staff and good working conditions generally . |
| 11 | The company expects a steady flow of orders follow ing recent decisions by the West German government to participate in various space efforts and several European military-aircraft projects . |
| 12 | Given what seems to be an insatiable demand — with simultaneous booms in office and factory automation , fuelled by the development of new Japanese language processing systems — Mizuno expects a steady stream of new entrants into the software service business during the coming five years . |
| 13 | British Rail expects a marked increase in Railfreight services to and from the Continent after the Tunnel opens and extensive alterations to the Willesden/Wembley Freight Complex are underway to marshal trains from the South East and other parts of the Country . |
| 14 | The company adds that it is already benefiting from increased efficiency and expects a large return on its financial investment in Weldon . |
| 15 | After a long ( 20-year ) gilt in March and a short ( five-year ) one in April , the market expects a medium-term issue in May . |
| 16 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
| 17 | The promoter Barry Hearn , expects a full house of 2,500 when Carlos DeLeon of Puerto Rico defends his World Boxing Council title against Nelson at Sheffield City Hall on January 27 . |
| 18 | Leading scorer Paul Wilkinson expects a tough match against his first professional club . |
| 19 | It expects a slow take-up of server versions of the operating system , and forecasts NT will take a 6.5% share of all server systems sold in Europe by 1996 . |
| 20 | He takes on Kenya 's former Olympic champion Paul Ereng in Hengelo , Holland , next Sunday and expects a hard race as part of his preparations for the World Championships in Stuttgart at the end of August . |