Example sentences of "[pron] expects [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To ask the Lord President of the Council when he expects results from the feasibility study on refreshment facilities for visitors to the House . |
| 32 | They say he expects people to shoot the other chap in the back , if they possibly can . ’ |
| 33 | He expects Megan to work part-time to pay for groceries and clothes for herself and their three children . |
| 34 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
| 35 | Makoto Naruke , president of Microsoft Corp 's Japanese subsidiary , told Reuter that he believes overall Japanese personal computer sales will increase 30% this year — and on the back of this , he expects Microsoft 's sales in Japan — just $108m in the year to June 31 , 1992 — to rise to $136m in the year that ends this June . |
| 36 | He expects Microsoft 's consumer division , into which all its information activities are lumped , to be the firm 's biggest within five years . |
| 37 | The brunt of the company 's restructuring , which has lead to 18,000 layoffs in two years ( a cut of close to 30% ) , says Mr De Benedetti , is now over and he expects Olivetti to return to profit in 1994 . |
| 38 | He expects profits to dip this year from the estimated £580m in the year just ended but reach £645m next year . |
| 39 | He expects profits this year of £135m and has pencilled in £150m for next year . |
| 40 | Although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 41 | Still , although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 42 | But he expects Wilson Bowden to build and sell 1,650 homes this year , an increase of 30 per cent on 1991 and 1992 . |
| 43 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 44 | The system of parental contributions is unfair and unacceptable in that it expects students to remain dependent on parents into adulthood . |
| 45 | It expects profitability to remain under pressure , despite recent restructuring actions aimed at achieving $50m in annual cost savings . |
| 46 | In another change of tack — there was a time when OS/2 was the whole future as far as the company was concerned , Microsoft Corp is switching its signals and is now making it clear that it expects MS-DOS users to prepare to switch to Windows NT . |
| 47 | Kew is currently negotiating OEM deals with DEC and IBM in the UK on behalf of Alpharetta , Georgia-based Raidtec : it expects signatures next year . |
| 48 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |
| 49 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 50 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 51 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 52 | The company said business in the first quarter was not fully satisfactory but it expects results for the full year 1993 to show an improvement over 1992 . |
| 53 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 54 | IBM says it expects sales and general administrative expenses to decline by about $1,000m this year through its restructuring efforts . |
| 55 | Staffing and funding : Staffing should be increased and the council wants at least £1 million in 1991 ( it expects £700,000 next year ) . |
| 56 | Based on current business levels and industry conditions , it expects turnover for the 1993 fiscal year to June 30 to be be between $1,250m and $1,300m . |
| 57 | Mercury Interactive Corp is moving into Europe with its XRunner and TestRunner software quality testing products , opening an office in Paris : it expects 40% of its revenues out of Europe in 18 months . |
| 58 | Fleet has already said it expects $350m a year of cost savings . |