Example sentences of "[pron] expects [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody expects councillors to be able to do sums involving three hundred and fifteen or fourteen million erm without professional help , just like any business would expect to use professional help for that . |
| 2 | Contradictions in a system which expects players to concentrate on football , yet not be paid ( unless you count scholarships ? ) are causing increasing problems . |
| 3 | The bulk of domiciliary care is already provided by families , but Mrs Thatcher has made it plain that she expects families to take on extra responsibilities , and this is also apparent in the White Paper on Caring for People . |
| 4 | I think she 's very optimistic if she expects others to go by bus so that she can get her car out of Muirwood Road , to get to work in Wester Hailes . |
| 5 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 6 | The point is that tonight — Magnapop 's UK debut — is peppered with punky teenage licks and festering grungy rumbles , yet just as one expects lyrics concerning death , drinking and corporate rock shagging , Linda hops , hiccups and beams , ‘ Wo n't you let me walk you home from school ? /Can I meet you at the pool ? ’ |
| 7 | Tin is a metal and somehow everybody expects metals to be strong . |
| 8 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 9 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 10 | A spokesman , Mr Guido Tognoni , said : ‘ I have the feeling everyone expects hooligans , but we are being more positive . ’ |
| 11 | Sampson ( broken bone in hand ) and Anderson ( back ) may cause bigger problems but Mr Van de Velde made it clear he expects improvements from a side who were unbeaten this year until after the semi-final . |
| 12 | He expects Germans , Japanese and anyone else who has not sent forces to contribute to a ‘ war chest ’ . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects exports to reach the same level as imports . |
| 14 | To ask the Lord President of the Council when he expects results from the feasibility study on refreshment facilities for visitors to the House . |
| 15 | He expects profits to dip this year from the estimated £580m in the year just ended but reach £645m next year . |
| 16 | He expects profits this year of £135m and has pencilled in £150m for next year . |
| 17 | Although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 18 | Still , although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 19 | The system of parental contributions is unfair and unacceptable in that it expects students to remain dependent on parents into adulthood . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |