Example sentences of "[noun] expect [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the tourists find themselves the underdogs with Will Carling expected to lead England to their third win in the sides ' 10th meeting . |
| 2 | THE FRENCH authorities expect to announce details of the design of the next generation of fast-breeder reactors at a nuclear safety conference next week . |
| 3 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 4 | Lang expects to reach decisions on the even more contentious issue of water privatisation before the summer . |
| 5 | The restructuring measures are intended to reduce annual spending by $10m to $12m ; Pyramid expects to report cash of about $26m as of September 30 , with almost no long-term debt . |
| 6 | The managers interviewed in all four companies expected to initiate matters in the foreign language ( usually verbally — by telephone ; but also by producing draft written outlines of reports ) and then subcontracted the work to highly skilled subordinates , such as bilingual secretaries . |
| 7 | Clearly in some cases the parents expect to lavish care upon a poor , neglected child who will respond with gratitude and affection . |
| 8 | The Hereford refugees expect to leave Orleans for good by Christmas . |
| 9 | The voluntary committee which runs the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival expected to receive £8,340 for its 14th annual programme , which begins a ten-day run at the end of May . |
| 10 | Normally the ‘ illegals ’ are handed back to China on the border almost daily , but Peking now says it will check each case , a move expected to slow repatriation to a trickle and put further pressure on the Territory 's detention centres , which are already overflowing with Vietnamese boat people . |
| 11 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library not just a university library , can do with its own computer , and most of our most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 12 | Not only are the films expected to increase awareness of Harlequin books , but they could open up another business : Harlequin 's heart throbs about video . |
| 13 | Most of Grampian 's sales staff will be taken on by TVMM , and the group expects to make savings through increased usage of resources such as research , computers and office space . |
| 14 | Comart expects to sell products worth £11 million this year , double the figure for 1981–82 . |
| 15 | But this was tempered by the disclosure that 35 per cent of firms expect to cut jobs over the same period . |
| 16 | How are Guyanese people expected to buy goods from Britain or anywhere else when they are so impoverished ? |
| 17 | ICL is this week expected to reveal details of plans to offer its OfficePower office automation package on a range of Unix platforms , including Santa Cruz Operation Inc Open Desktop , Sun Sparcstations and IBM RS/6000s ( UX No 384 ) . |
| 18 | The partners expect to complete networks for the vast majority of Time Warner 's clustered cable systems by 1998 and will share equally in the design , implementation and direction of the full-service networks . |
| 19 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 20 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 21 | Additionally , X/Open expects to incorporate ideas from other user organisations and standards groups , many of which — including NIST , the US national institute of standards — are now taking increasingly pro-active roles in the open systems arena . |
| 22 | The Leeds Permanent building society expected to increase rates by at least 1.25 per cent . |
| 23 | I 'm against rape but definitely if a woman er goes to a man 's bed then it 's quite er er sensible that if a man expects to have sex with that woman . |
| 24 | Mr Wallace expects to get support for his view that the Scottish Constitutional Convention should go into cold storage , not just because it has little relevance but also to expose Labour as uninterested in cross-party co-operation . |
| 25 | The Army expects to spend £1million on accommodation and modifications in the first year with more to follow . |
| 26 | As a result Birmingham expects to divert £700,000 from its residential budget to improve its fostering services and staffing levels in its remaining residential homes . |
| 27 | Control Data Corp expects to record charges of about $400m against its second quarter , about $130m attributable to Control Data Systems — $115m in restructuring charges and $15m in inventory write-downs as part of the transition from the proprietary Cyber mainframes to integration of open systems and applications . |
| 28 | Univel expects to see $20m to $30m out of this crowd in the first year . |
| 29 | Senior officials of the United States administration were quoted on June 20 as saying that the USA expected to lift sanctions against South Africa by mid-July , a lead most other countries and organizations were generally expected quickly to follow . |
| 30 | Sainsbury maintains tight control of costs and benefits from its large investment programme were behind its success with capital expenditure expected to reach £800m by the end of the year . |