Example sentences of "expect its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet leaders have given no indication , moreover , that they are prepared to abandon the PDPA and apparently expect its apparatus to be retained in post-settlement Afghanistan even if its role is reduced and its monopoly of power relinquished . |
| 2 | To give some small examples within my own experience , ICI , in the past , expected its managers to be prepared to move , and work , anywhere . |
| 3 | This reversal of earlier antislavery history in which London-based committees had sought to mobilise the provinces from their self-anointed positions of leadership was a sign that an aroused antislavery public expected its demands to override tendencies to parliamentary compromise and to render manoeuvre within virtually irrelevant . |
| 4 | In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK . |
| 5 | The noise of the van receded and Forester expected its place to be taken by the measured squeak and clank of the old machine , a sound that he 'd so far heard only through still air at a distance . |
| 6 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 7 | Any society embarked on wholesale transition might expect its progress to be punctuated by intermittent chaos . |
| 8 | Again , we would expect its level of use to be inversely related to the level of union organisation in an establishment . |
| 9 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 10 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 11 | It is not , therefore , unreasonable for the Church to expect its musicians to have natural musical talents , some training and an adequate technique . |
| 12 | Pavlov 's dog analogizes to previous occasions when it learns to expect its dinner as before when the bell rings as before , the ape simulates when it ‘ apes ’ . |
| 13 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 14 | Despite field reports that this initial DCE release lacks robustness , USL expects its OEMs to ship product to end users in the first half of 1993 based on it . |
| 15 | It expects its gearing to rise from 10 per cent to 20 per cent . |
| 16 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 17 | The council expects its censure or serious criticism ‘ to discredit editors and journalists at whom it is aimed and to be weighed by their employers ’ . |
| 18 | THIS is how Edinburgh expects its windfall to add up : |
| 19 | Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH says that it now expects its subscriber base to reach 200,000 next month , ahead of plan , but still expects the level to be between 300,000 and 350,000 by year-end ; it is still looking for profits in 1994-95 . |
| 20 | It says it expects its OEM customers to implement the new standard in their products by the end of the year . |
| 21 | Upgrades to its existing 91 and 93 systems are in the works and Encore says it expects its OEM , McDonnell-Douglas , to sign up for the new machine . |
| 22 | Stratus expects its OEM deal with IBM to continue to generate around 15% of its reveunes , but wants to grow ICL plc sales of its machines into the commercial sector . |
| 23 | Although Concurrent 's Series 3200 proprietary machines provide about two thirds of sales , the company expects its Unix line to take over . |
| 24 | Compaq Computer Corp says it expects its move into direct sales to generate up to 10% of its US revenues this year , and may be expanded to some foreign markets later this year : total US sales amounted to about $1,700m in 1992 , Compaq said . |
| 25 | Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors . |
| 26 | Despite a 0.8% decline in spending in the UK market , ICL expects its results to reflect 12% revenue growth in the year . |
| 27 | Overall , armed with $500m in new capital from its state-owned shareholders this year and with the renewed growth in the market , SGS-Thomson expects its growth to surpass 20% , said the report in La Tribune . |