Example sentences of "expects [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , it says there has been slowing down of sales of its Sparc server systems over the last few months , and expects its European turnover for the coming year to remain flat at $15m . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | SGI expects its existing System V.3 Irix base and users of the MIPS Risc/OS operating system , which is being phased out , to converge on Sherwood . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | DEC expects its next iteration EV-45 design to produce 300MHz chips that could start shipping in early 1994 . |
| 6 | At the same meeting , he said that Novell expects its fourth quarter international revenues to be about even with the third quarter , adding ‘ Europe continues to look spotty . ’ |
| 7 | Lyle 's wife , Jolande , expects their first baby at the end of March , and the first British winner of the title in 1988 will almost certainly withdraw if she is late . |
| 8 | Whereas I had seen the doctor who used the charity format as something of a villain , Bulgakov portrays himself as a hero in these stories and plainly expects his Soviet readership to do the same . |
| 9 | Gazza , now with Lazio of Rome after his £5.5 million transfer from Tottenham , expects his first match to be against Spurs on September 23 . |
| 10 | Rob Pinchbeck expects his new spell as manager of Magnus to last longer than his previous stint in the job . |
| 11 | Defeat was no disaster however to Boutin who still expects his fallen hero to rise again . |
| 12 | Eric Cador , marketing centre director for Hewlett-Packard Co 's personal computer division in Grenoble , France is a contrarian and expects his own company to ship 2.4 to 2.5 times as many Vectras in Europe in the current quarter as it did a year earlier and he forecasts that revenue will double from the year-ago level . |