Example sentences of "it expect [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 2 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 3 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 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 | It expects its gearing to rise from 10 per cent to 20 per cent . |
| 6 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 10 | It says it expects its OEM customers to implement the new standard in their products by the end of the year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Novell Inc says it expects its new NetWare 4.0 to represent 20% of total revenues in the first 12 months of shipment , matching previous releases : some analysts had questioned how quickly NetWare 4.0 will take off because of its complexity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | it expects them to lose a staggering twenty million pounds in the first year . |
| 15 | And it expects him to keep a promise made to local priests that he intends to ‘ provide a Catholic desk for every Catholic pupil in Darlington where there is proven need ’ . |
| 16 | It expects it to sell better than the P5 initially and claims Hewlett-Packard Co , Acer Corp , Compaq Computer Systems Corp and DEC will be using it . |
| 17 | It expects it to increase in value . |