Example sentences of "expects [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sampson ( broken bone in hand ) and Anderson ( back ) may cause bigger problems but Mr Van de Velde made it clear he expects improvements from a side who were unbeaten this year until after the semi-final . |
| 2 | What I do n't want is a man who takes me out for a meal , buys a bottle of cheap plonk and expects payment in the form of instant sex , either in the back of his car , or if he gets really lucky , in my flat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 6 | FIserve expects $23.5m from the offering and will use it for working capital , possible repayment of debt and acquisitions of complementary businesses . |
| 7 | Technology chairman Derek Lewis expects sales in the hundreds rather than thousands in the first year , but is aiming for between 5% and 10% of the UK Unix market thereafter . |
| 8 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 9 | None of them expects miracles in the economy this year and growth forecasts range from a bare 0.2 per cent to 2 per cent . |
| 10 | It also assumes a drop out rate somewhat higher than that used by its predecessor and , unlike that body , expects growth in the number of general practitioners to continue after 2000 rather than tail off . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To ask the Lord President of the Council when he expects results from the feasibility study on refreshment facilities for visitors to the House . |
| 13 | No one expects limousine-comfort from a 137mph coupe but , even so , you do n't get much ride absorbency with either car . |