Example sentences of "expect this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 2 | But with a lower costs base and 6 p.c. rise in advertising revenue expected this year , the company is dipping into reserves to lift the dividend total 11 p.c. to 16p , with a 13⅛p final on June 8 . |
| 3 | California 's Amgen , the jewel in the crown of American biotechnology , is set to become the industry 's first to enter the Fortune 500 list of America 's top companies , with revenue of $1 billion expected this year . |
| 4 | With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July . |
| 5 | Few expected this year 's spring sales at Sotheby 's and Christie 's to do much to revive spirits , or prices . |
| 6 | Numerous bidders expected this Fairchild to reach into the $ 35–45,000 range . |
| 7 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
| 8 | A large proportion of firms expected this expansion to continue throughout the 1980s . |
| 9 | As a former member of his Household explained : ‘ He never expected this kind of reaction . |
| 10 | I expected this place to be in chaos — instead , it 's an oasis of calm . |
| 11 | Mainly light rain expected this evening the outbreaks should die out around midnight the rest of the night then being cloudy and misty with a little drizzle in places . |
| 12 | The duo face competition from at least five bank-led consortia , all vying to operate the network , which should be up and running by 1995 , with the licence award expected this autumn . |
| 13 | The Asian Development Bank expected this shift to improve the investment climate in the longer term . |
| 14 | erm so that y so that you expected this sort of measure of service and if you were told the , if you were told the circumstances you might have said well that 's okay , no problem . |
| 15 | How do you know whether anything has been a success , or whether you 're doing anything right , unless you ask , and we expect this rationale to follow through into our community investment programme . |
| 16 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 17 | ‘ A number of distinguished engineers have been Whitworth Scholars , and we expect this year 's award winners to be high achievers in their subsequent careers , ’ he said . |
| 18 | We expect this exhibition to be of particular interest to sports administrators and physiotherapists . |
| 19 | We all know that er if the crisis has a military er follow-up , er during this type of crisis , everybody will exp , expect this crisis , if it happens , will be short , erm well er would be abnormal but this is not the situation of today . |
| 20 | These transformations of legal systems do not necessarily represent an insidious increase in the growth of a hidden power elite , although radical authors expect this result . |
| 21 | MacDonald 's hostess Angela Donalis from the city 's Lord Street premises is stocking up for the huge demand which is expected this weekend . |
| 22 | While chairman David Gare said the group performed well throughout the year , he had expected this year 's figures to be better than last . |
| 23 | Cortex Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co have signed a joint marketing and development pact that will see Cortex' CorVision application development tool , previously available only on VAXes , moved to its first Unix environment HP-UX on an HP 9000 Series 800 server : CorVision will be encapsulated so it runs with HP SoftBench Framework ; availability is expected this year . |
| 24 | The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica has been far worse than expected this year . |
| 25 | It also has to struggle with the social and economic consequences of the recession vested on the country by central government and of course it is expected this year to meet the costs of what is an unwanted and will be a costly and unsatisfactory reorganisation of local government . |
| 26 | Yesterday 's statistics suggest the trade gap will be slightly bigger than expected this year , mainly due to recession among some of Britain 's key trading partners , notably Germany . |
| 27 | Other new production is expected this year from the Draugen field in Norwegian waters , the Pagerungan gas find in Indonesia and Point McIntyre in Alaska . |
| 28 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |
| 29 | A pool of close to £300,000 is expected this afternoon when the card looks anything but straightforward . |
| 30 | The choice of a reference implementation for Application Linking is expected this fall and should be deployed as a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |