Example sentences of "[noun sg] expects [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun expects Dragon to plough through the logjam holding back diffident customers from committing to Unix because pricey Unix servers ca n't handle the load . |
| 2 | Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years . |
| 3 | Hall expects 50% of Sun Commonwealth of Independent States business to come from Moscow and its surrounds . |
| 4 | Hall expects 50% of Sun CIS business to come from Moscow and its surrounds . |
| 5 | The Engineering Council expects registrants to adhere to good engineering practice wherever and whenever possible and considers that this Code of Professional Practice will assist registrants in achieving this standard . |
| 6 | But the council expects coal use to increase sharply as oil and gas reserves run out , leading to the exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves by the end of the next century . |
| 7 | Dishonesty is also brought out in this scene , when the Duke expects Shylock to forgive Antonio in line 23 ‘ which is a pound of this poor merchant 's flesh , thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture , but touch with human gentleness and love , Forgive a moiety of the principal ; ’ . |
| 8 | Smith New Court expects AMI 's profits to have reached £20.5m in the year just ended with £24.5m likely this year . |
| 9 | InfoCorp expects shipments of multiuser systems with an average selling price between $15,000 and $1m to grow from 509,000 units in 1992 to 643,000 units in 1997 — a compound annual growth rate of 6% . |
| 10 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 11 | Under the new policy , Starkist expects tuna prices to rise from 2 cents to 10 cents per can , but hopes that increased costs would be compensated for by increased sales , as environmentally-conscious consumers opt for dolphin-safe tuna . |
| 12 | Quality expects rewards , experience makes comparisons . |
| 13 | Grove expects Intel to invest $1,600m on capital equipment this year . |
| 14 | And the British Tourist Authority expects figures to rise as our recent warm summers , the effects of the recession and the threat of airport delays encourage more and more people to holiday at home rather than abroad . |
| 15 | That is , I think , the task which the Home Secretary expects judges to perform when he asks for their advice on the requirements of retribution and deterrence , and the task which the judges do perform . |
| 16 | When children die , allegedly at the hands of parents or those responsible for their care , society expects responsibility to be allocated , and penalties paid . |
| 17 | ‘ Society expects children to do something most adults would find terrifying — give details of the most intimate obscenities performed on them in front of court officials , the public and the media and often their abusers . |
| 18 | The firm expects Europe to contribute another 10% in revenues by the end of the year . |
| 19 | By 2001 the government expects 90% of new jobs to be filled by women and that women will form 45% of the labour force ( Employment Gazette April 1990 ) . |
| 20 | NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR EXPECTS MARGINS TO IMPROVE |
| 21 | HP expects COSE to deliver a measure of source code compatibility for applications across various Unix architectures in its initial guise — a binary compatible environment allowing applications to run on multiple platforms is seen as the net result of future COSE specifications . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State expects LEAs to give a ‘ clear and explicit ’ ( 1988b ) basis for devising or amending a resource-allocation formula so that all concerned understand exactly how it operates . |
| 23 | FIserve expects $23.5m from the offering and will use it for working capital , possible repayment of debt and acquisitions of complementary businesses . |
| 24 | The Yacht Division expects Tri-Lux II to grow into a product with sales worth $2–3 million a year . |
| 25 | PARALLAN COMPUTER EXPECTS FALL IN SHIPMENTS |
| 26 | Smithers & Co expects capital spending to fall by almost half before this adjustment is complete . |
| 27 | He confesses this is why he 's started leaping out in uncharacteristic new directions which discomfit the regulars , playing with bright colours and polka dots when the world expects sludge and subtle stripes ad nauseam . |
| 28 | The Microprocessor Report expects Bob Miller to be replaced at Mips Technologies Inc . |
| 29 | The Microprocessor Report expects Bob Miller to be replaced at MIPS Technologies Inc : he apparently retains his seat on Silicon Graphics Inc 's board and his post as head of MIPS ' architecture committee but it seems he 's off with a new venture-backed workstation company called NetPower Systems Inc ; he would n't discuss product plans but the newsletter thinks that it will market low-cost MIPS R-series workstations made by OEM suppliers . |
| 30 | Only confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic : every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months . |