Example sentences of "[noun] expect a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woking manager Geoff Chapple said the club expected a gate of up to 3,000 for tomorrow 's home fixture with Kingstonian . |
| 2 | Until the mid-80s , such funds were discouraged by both the Charity Commissioners and the Inland Revenue , but now , as the rules are changed , the industry expects a flood of them with managers aggressively promoting them . |
| 3 | SEVERAL areas expecting a share of a £100 million EC aid package may be excluded because of what MPs claim is a bureaucratic muddle , the Government conceded yesterday . |
| 4 | Only when Helen and Tony told him that Helen expected a baby before Christmas did he seem to come out of his stupor of misery . |
| 5 | Their parents had travelled thousands of miles , from all parts of the globe , to make a new home in quiet England , safe among the ashes of empire , only to have their children greeted by Mr Malik , a man more exotic than any schoolboy had a right to expect a teacher to be . |
| 6 | IDG expects an attendance of 35,000 , and Unigram Japan will be exhibiting . |
| 7 | MIPS expects a number of its OEMs to pick up the new ARCsystems including CDC , Tandem and government integrator AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies which will put its System V/Multi-Level Secure Unix on the boxes . |
| 8 | The SSD expected a demand for advocates to accompany mothers to child protection conferences . |
| 9 | To illustrate the combination of speculative and portfolio adjustment effects that are embodied in relative returns it is useful to analyse the changes that would arise if wealth and turnover are held constant and investors expect a rise of 1% in the relative return on UK investments in both the current and following quarters due to an expected exchange rate appreciation . |
| 10 | When the European trade bar riers are lifted on January 1 French store owners expect an army of Brits to land — eager to snap up bargain-basement alcohol and cigarettes and ensure the happiest of New Years . |
| 11 | THE Government was warned last night to expect a rebuff as the Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel prepared to ballot members on a deal rejected by the five TUC-affiliated unions for ambulance staff . |
| 12 | For example , suppose that last year people expected a rate of inflation this year of 10 per cent ; if the actual rate turns out to be 16 per cent , the expectation will have been in error by 6 per cent . |
| 13 | ‘ Many people expect a standard from members of the Royal Family , which they do n't expect from their own families . |
| 14 | ‘ Some people expect a movie to be more than entertaining if they go and just laugh all the way through , they think there 's something wrong . |
| 15 | Time and empathy are often lacking in the doctor-patient encounter ; high-tech medicine sometimes turns patients into numbers labelled with a diagnosis ; and since many diseases have become curable , some patients expect a cure for all ailments . |
| 16 | Police closed off streets all around the area , with more than 5,000 people expecting a glimpse of their heroes . |
| 17 | • Next year , new public registers or contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act will be opened , and the Department of the Environment expects an increase in public pressure for sites to be cleaned up . |
| 18 | In 1990 the government expected a growth in imports of 25 per cent , so that exports would need to grow by 15 per cent in order to limit the fall in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990 to 2 per cent . |
| 19 | Many rabbis expected a Messiah after the destruction of the Second Temple , and the greatest of them , Rabbi Akiva , found his Messiah in Bar Kochba under Hadrian , though it is very doubtful whether Bar Kochba himself even claimed Messianic status . |
| 20 | If this is not true , then there is no longer any reason to expect a tendency towards equality between the real wage and the marginal disutility of labour . |
| 21 | Commentators expected an upturn in the second half of 1990 , but the economy proved highly susceptible to the new circumstances imposed by the Gulf crisis . |
| 22 | The biggest error of all was for investment ; the Treasury expected a fall in volume terms of under 1% , but in the event it fell by 12% . |
| 23 | Livings , who had come to Thorpe expecting a host of small , annoying revisions , could not believe his luck . |
| 24 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 25 | The market expects a jump in profits from £3.4m to £4.2m pre-tax this year and news of further contract awards , together with a few senior management appointments , is expected soon . |