Example sentences of "expect [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pupils at the new schools would have to expect longer working days and longer terms than at maintained schools . |
| 32 | ‘ While in times past a royal wife would be expected simply to put up with a situation no matter how desperate , the Princess of Wales belongs to a generation that has come to expect greater things from life and certainly from relationships , ’ she wrote . |
| 33 | Most expected better times and were not disappointed . |
| 34 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 35 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 36 | There were various suggestions as to Balliol 's intentions in this southwards move : that his aim was first to divide the west from the east , then to work round and isolate Edinburgh ; that he knew of Sir Archibald Douglas 's mustering of his Galloway vassals and sought to keep this force from joining the main Scots array ; that perhaps he was expecting further English reinforcements from Carlisle and the West March ; and so on . |
| 37 | Nurses in the USA are expecting better time ahead after the election of Bill Clinton as president last week . |
| 38 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont , Chancellor , pointed to surveys indicating an improvement in business confidence , with more companies expecting higher orders and sales . |
| 39 | Mozart wrote the part of Ramiro for a castrato , perhaps expecting greater power than Katherine Steffan conveyed , at least until the final aria when this previously rational character loses his cool . |
| 40 | Though he expects lower cereal crop yields after he completes the conversion , there is a saving of £70 an acre in the cost of pesticides and herbicides . |
| 41 | It expects lower extraordinary spending this year , since it has taken charges for job cuts as well as depreciation already . |
| 42 | NETWORTH EXPECTS LOWER SALES AND PROFITS |
| 43 | Dallas , Texas-based NetWorth Inc warns that it expects lower than expected sales and net profit for its third quarter to March 31 — turnover will be about flat with the $4.4m of the second quarter , and profits down about breakeven ; the company blames the fact that it is converting an element of its Series 4000 products to a new Ethernet implementation and is experiencing unforeseen limitations of critical sole-source components . |
| 44 | BACHMAN EXPECTS LOWER THIRD QUARTER REVENUES |
| 45 | It expects lower extraordinary spending this year , since it has taken charges for job cuts as well as depreciation already . |
| 46 | With higher-fare payers slow to return , BA expects further losses in a normally buoyant first quarter . |
| 47 | And by the end of the year , it expects further sites to be fully operational in Spain and Italy . |
| 48 | RADIUS EXPECTS LARGER LOSS |
| 49 | Everyone expects better results in the next quarter . |
| 50 | After all , one expects better value for money for one 's computer time . |