Example sentences of "says [pron] expect " in BNC.
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1 | Steve Kerton says they expect fifty thousand people at the race this weekend … half a million watch the sport in Rotterdam … |
2 | Owner Dave West says he expects to turn over £3 million this year . |
3 | Hoddle says he expects the Italians to be a highly skilled team , but says his own side will contain some talented players . |
4 | With the big day looming closer , Richard Middleton , president of the firm 's UK operation , says he expects to hear from Granada TV any day now . |
5 | M&S will join Texaco as one of the big-name occupiers of Canary Wharf , and Olympia&York says it expects to announce several other tenants shortly . |
6 | M&S will join Texaco as one of the big-name occupiers of Canary Wharf , and Olympia&York says it expects to announce several other tenants shortly . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | It says it expects to offer a wireless electronic messaging service by the end of the year , and that it is aiming for beta testing during the summer . |
9 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc says it expects to announce an agreement on a foundry for production of Am486s by the end of next month , but it does not see any revenues from the agreement before January next year : it expects to produce about 600,000 to 700,000 Am486 chips this year , and to increase that production to about 1m per quarter by the second quarter of next year ; it is still ‘ negotiating in earnest ’ with several possible foundry candidates . |
10 | Motorola Inc says it expects to have the first version of its hand-held personal communicator on the market by the end of this year : the device , internally code-named the Personal Messenger , will be Motorola 's first product from its alliance with General Magic Corp : the hand-held device will initially handle data only , but will be able to transmit and receive messages and electronic mail from all current electronic mail systems ; the target price is a hefty $2,000 . |
11 | Milpitas-based Adaptec Inc is making hay with its disk controllers from the boom in personal computer sales generated by the price war , and says it expects to report net profit of about $50m , 1.90 per share for its fiscal year to March 31 1993 , on sales more than double last year 's $150.3m . |
12 | Borland International Inc reports ‘ strong initial reception ’ to its long-delayed Windows version of Paradox , and says it expects to report profits of 10 cents a share for its fourth quarter to March 31 , double the average analyst forecast ; Microsoft Corp said it had sold about 700,000 copies of its new Access database program , and Borland says that its Paradox for Windows has done about as well . |
13 | It says it expects to incur a one-time charge of about $8.0m in its fiscal fourth quarter to March 31 to cover the extra costs and charges related to restructuring the integrated operations of the two firms . |
14 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
15 | Philips Electronics NV 's Interactive Media Systems group says it expects to launch a whole range of new products based on Compact Disk-Interactive technology , starting with a CD-I player in September to run full-motion video so that users could alter the plot of a movie . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it expects ‘ considerable improvement in profits in 1993 ’ : it expects the strong order intake seen last year to continue despite a recession and notes that orders for Ericsson 's mobile systems , which grew by 58% in 1992 , are expected to grow by around 60% in the current quarter . |
18 | Following an integration and final testing phase , the Desktop Management Task Force says it expects to provide a reference implementation of the specification and make a free prototype available later this year . |
19 | By mid-1993 , France Telecom says it expects to have signed other roaming agreements with Germany , Italy , the Scandinavian nations , and the UK . |
20 | It says it expects its OEM customers to implement the new standard in their products by the end of the year . |
21 | Fujitsu says it expects to sell 100,000 units per month . |
22 | Despite a slump in the company 's margins , Bear Stearns & Co. raised its investment rating of Apple Computer Inc to ‘ strong buy ’ from ‘ buy ’ following the company 's fiscal second-quarter earnings report — figures , page five : analyst Andy Neff says he made the change because concern about Apple 's results was overdone ; commenting on the figures , Apple says it expects to resume growth — in earnings , revenue , unit sales , and market share — in the second half of its fiscal year , saying that the fall in profit was down to pricing pressures , the costs of new product launches , and a constraint in supplies needed for manufacturing , the latter two drains being short-term ; he noted that despite supply constraints , second quarter unit growth was up over 70% in its Powerbook notebook computers , while total Macintosh unit growth was up over 385 ; the European market continues to be slow , but sales in Japan are leading the way for continued growth of the Apple Pacific business unit ; gross margin was 38.5% of net sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1993 , down from 44.0% a year ago . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
25 | El Segundo , California-based Computer Sciences Corp says it expects to record a net gain of about $5m in the first quarter of fiscal 1994 on adoption of a new accounting rule covering income tax reporting . |
26 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit . |
27 | Although Bellcore says it expects to finalise Release 1 by 1995 , Ovum reckons it will not be available until 1997 . |
28 | Having got rid of its international stores chain with the spin-off of InterTan Inc , Tandy Corp is heading back into the international market again and says it expects to open a second SuperCenter store in Stockholm , Sweden in the third quarter ; the company already operates a third SuperCenter in Copenhagen . |
29 | AT&T says it expects ‘ several hundred ’ of its 11m million business customers in the US to ‘ express interest ’ in the new services in the first year or so — but will that interest be turned into contracts ? |
30 | Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94 , with zero net profit . |