Example sentences of "expects [pron] [adj] [noun] " 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 party expects its young hopefuls to fight at least one unwinnable seat in a rotting inner city or municipal wilderness before letting them have a crack at a seat in the safe suburbs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Rob Pinchbeck expects his new spell as manager of Magnus to last longer than his previous stint in the job . |
| 9 | Defeat was no disaster however to Boutin who still expects his fallen hero to rise again . |