Example sentences of "[pron] expect [to-vb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You expect to find an assassin masquerading as a goose ? ’ |
2 | Are you expecting to make an arrest shortly ? ’ |
3 | We welcome the emphasis on safety in the North sea , but we expect a parallel prioritisation of the extremely dangerous potential accident sites onshore , and we expect to see an improvement in that situation . |
4 | In the near future we expect to recruit an Asia Pacific representative who will enable us to expand further in this region . |
5 | Some firms are actually enjoying the recession ; 397 of the 1,410 companies recently surveyed by the Nihon Keizai newspaper said they expect to show an increase in pre-tax profits at the end of the financial year . |
6 | Directors said they expect to pay an interim and a final in the current year . |
7 | The EC stated in the final declaration that it expected to implement an offer to remove or reduce duties on tropical products " once a satisfactory balanced conclusion has been reached in the Uruguay Round " . |
8 | The Labour spokesman called for a quick decision on RUC requests for more manpower and Mr Brooke replied that he expected to make an announcement very soon . |
9 | Mr Major has already asked Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other EC leaders to delay any decisions , at least until the EC summit at Maastricht in early December : presumably he expects to call an election this autumn . |
10 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to make an announcement on a national scheme for the conversion of council rents to mortgages . |
11 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc says it expects to announce an agreement on a foundry for production of Am486s by the end of next month , but it does not see any revenues from the agreement before January next year : it expects to produce about 600,000 to 700,000 Am486 chips this year , and to increase that production to about 1m per quarter by the second quarter of next year ; it is still ‘ negotiating in earnest ’ with several possible foundry candidates . |