Example sentences of "expect [art] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 While Robert Henri 's ‘ Skipper Mick ’ was a radiant , tightly painted and very appealing late portrait ( lot 56 est. $80–120,000 ) , none expected the $315,000 ( £196,875 ) Henri portrait record paid by dealer John Surovek .
2 When asked about a timeframe for these auctions , the spokesman said that there was ‘ no hurry ’ but that he expected the aircraft to have gone to its new home by Christmas .
3 Before visiting the remote north , I had rather expected the folk there to be rough , uncouth , possibly even hostile .
4 It is expected the £3 tickets for the show will sell out quickly .
5 Expect the 550bhp 4wd concept to make its debut at Geneva in March and to be better received than Italdesign 's unofficial ID90 styling mock-up that raised Bugatti 's hackles at Turin two years ago .
6 I expect the staff watch when they 're bored .
7 This indicates that market operators expect the DM to appreciate over the three month period against the dollar .
8 We expect the people to be like them and presuppose it in dealing with the people themselves .
9 Er , to expend money on a project over , that is going to last thirty forty years , and expect the people today to pay for it .
10 ‘ And just when do you expect the cavalry to arrive ? ’ he countered with heavy irony .
11 You would expect the tropics to support more life than the high latitudes , simply because they receive more solar energy .
12 You can also expect the fish to feed along the shore towards which the wind is blowing .
13 This means that as we use more and more observations we would expect the means of our estimators to tend towards their true values while the variability of the estimators decreases .
14 Do n't expect a sales person to do the job of analysing your requirements because in general it is just too difficult a task .
15 Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year .
16 In the end , it is naïve to expect the media to single-handedly change centuries of established ways of thinking about the role of the individual/citizen/consumer in the political and social system .
17 In fact once it reaches a large size , or starts to breed , territoriality will almost certainly make private quarters a necessity — it is relatively peaceful in relation to its size , but — and this applies to many other Central American substrate spawners — it is unreasonable to expect a fish with a natural breeding territory of 10 or more feet in diameter to share a tank with anything else .
18 It 's absurd to expect a heron to behave like a blackbird ! "
19 This means that leaders and government have to be accessible to the people ; and , given the great gulf that has opened up between them in so many modern societies , this probably means that the government has to go to the people , rather than expecting the people to come to it .
20 Informix was expecting a $22m cheque last week for its share of the 60,000-user US Army RCAS contract which is worth $1.6bn overall : it received an initial $5m payment back in January .
21 There was a tremendous hatch of flies and I was concentrating , hard , expecting a fish to grab any moment .
22 He said Anglo expects the sales to be completed by Christmas .
23 It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years .
24 The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits .
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