Example sentences of "it expect [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed .
2 It added that it expected Denmark 's gross domestic product to grow by 2.25 per cent in 1992 , up from 2 per cent in 1991 .
3 In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] .
4 Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp has filed a patent infringement suit against Conner Peripherals Inc over a patent relating to intelligent disk drives — last year Conner and Alps Electric USA Ltd bought the patents of the bankrupt PrairieTek Corp and Western Digital said it expected Conner to sue it based on two of these PrairieTek patents and on two patents developed by Conner , and its own suit is a pre-emptive strike .
5 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 .
6 The system of parental contributions is unfair and unacceptable in that it expects students to remain dependent on parents into adulthood .
7 It expects profitability to remain under pressure , despite recent restructuring actions aimed at achieving $50m in annual cost savings .
8 In another change of tack — there was a time when OS/2 was the whole future as far as the company was concerned , Microsoft Corp is switching its signals and is now making it clear that it expects MS-DOS users to prepare to switch to Windows NT .
9 Kew is currently negotiating OEM deals with DEC and IBM in the UK on behalf of Alpharetta , Georgia-based Raidtec : it expects signatures next year .
10 Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m .
11 One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype .
12 The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register .
13 Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand .
14 The company said business in the first quarter was not fully satisfactory but it expects results for the full year 1993 to show an improvement over 1992 .
15 Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing .
16 IBM says it expects sales and general administrative expenses to decline by about $1,000m this year through its restructuring efforts .
17 Staffing and funding : Staffing should be increased and the council wants at least £1 million in 1991 ( it expects £700,000 next year ) .
18 Based on current business levels and industry conditions , it expects turnover for the 1993 fiscal year to June 30 to be be between $1,250m and $1,300m .
19 Mercury Interactive Corp is moving into Europe with its XRunner and TestRunner software quality testing products , opening an office in Paris : it expects 40% of its revenues out of Europe in 18 months .
20 Fleet has already said it expects $350m a year of cost savings .
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