Example sentences of "expect its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet leaders have given no indication , moreover , that they are prepared to abandon the PDPA and apparently expect its apparatus to be retained in post-settlement Afghanistan even if its role is reduced and its monopoly of power relinquished . |
| 2 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 3 | Swapo holds 41 of the Assembly 's 72 seats , but observers expected its main opponent , the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance ( DTA ) which has 21 seats , to block a Swapo-drafted constitution . |
| 4 | This reversal of earlier antislavery history in which London-based committees had sought to mobilise the provinces from their self-anointed positions of leadership was a sign that an aroused antislavery public expected its demands to override tendencies to parliamentary compromise and to render manoeuvre within virtually irrelevant . |
| 5 | To give some small examples within my own experience , ICI , in the past , expected its managers to be prepared to move , and work , anywhere . |
| 6 | The noise of the van receded and Forester expected its place to be taken by the measured squeak and clank of the old machine , a sound that he 'd so far heard only through still air at a distance . |
| 7 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
| 8 | The Bank expected its own new lending commitments in the year 1990-91 to increase to between $16,000 million and $18,000 million , and those of the IDA to reach $5,700 million , including substantial concessional lending to eastern Europe . |
| 9 | In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK . |
| 10 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 11 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 12 | Olivetti says it does n't expect its newest machine , MIPS ' ARCsystems or the rest of the ACE consortium 's MIPS offerings to have any real impact on the market for the next two or three years , leaving Intel Corp 's dynasty intact for some time to come . |
| 13 | Again , we would expect its level of use to be inversely related to the level of union organisation in an establishment . |
| 14 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 15 | Any society embarked on wholesale transition might expect its progress to be punctuated by intermittent chaos . |
| 16 | Pavlov 's dog analogizes to previous occasions when it learns to expect its dinner as before when the bell rings as before , the ape simulates when it ‘ apes ’ . |
| 17 | It is not , therefore , unreasonable for the Church to expect its musicians to have natural musical talents , some training and an adequate technique . |
| 18 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 19 | THE speciality chemicals group , Laporte , is expecting its recent £129 million acquisition , Evode , to boost earnings in the current year . |
| 20 | It expects its gearing to rise from 10 per cent to 20 per cent . |
| 21 | The council expects its censure or serious criticism ‘ to discredit editors and journalists at whom it is aimed and to be weighed by their employers ’ . |
| 22 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 23 | The party expects its young hopefuls to fight at least one unwinnable seat in a rotting inner city or municipal wilderness before letting them have a crack at a seat in the safe suburbs . |
| 24 | THIS is how Edinburgh expects its windfall to add up : |
| 25 | Tektronix expects its X terminals emulating the 3270 to be hugely successful with users wanting to replace terminals with a windowed environment without the pain of retraining staff on a new system . |
| 26 | Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors . |
| 27 | Despite a 0.8% decline in spending in the UK market , ICL expects its results to reflect 12% revenue growth in the year . |
| 28 | Compaq Computer Corp says it expects its move into direct sales to generate up to 10% of its US revenues this year , and may be expanded to some foreign markets later this year : total US sales amounted to about $1,700m in 1992 , Compaq said . |
| 29 | Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH says that it now expects its subscriber base to reach 200,000 next month , ahead of plan , but still expects the level to be between 300,000 and 350,000 by year-end ; it is still looking for profits in 1994-95 . |
| 30 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |