Example sentences of "[art] [noun] expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Until the mid-80s , such funds were discouraged by both the Charity Commissioners and the Inland Revenue , but now , as the rules are changed , the industry expects a flood of them with managers aggressively promoting them . |
2 | Woking manager Geoff Chapple said the club expected a gate of up to 3,000 for tomorrow 's home fixture with Kingstonian . |
3 | Not only did the mourners expect a meal but there was also the priest 's fee , plus an appropriate ‘ donation ’ to church funds . |
4 | The SSD expected a demand for advocates to accompany mothers to child protection conferences . |
5 | The psalmist expects a response that is physical as he invites the worshippers : |
6 | In 1990 the government expected a growth in imports of 25 per cent , so that exports would need to grow by 15 per cent in order to limit the fall in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990 to 2 per cent . |
7 | Ye , I feel actually women go , or people in general , go to the doctors expecting a tablet , a prescription , and are very disappointed if they do n't get one . |
8 | Well , one day I opened the door expecting a customer and there were three strangers . |
9 | Half the crowd expect a punk band and half are curious old gits who remember organ bands the first time around . |
10 | The biggest error of all was for investment ; the Treasury expected a fall in volume terms of under 1% , but in the event it fell by 12% . |
11 | He answered that he had gone too far now and that the Country expected a dissolution . |
12 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
13 | In Finland , the Bolsheviks expected a workers ’ revolution but in the short term recognized the independent bourgeois republic . |
14 | By the turn of the century , to borrow from DEC 's Alpha phrase book , the pair expect a Sparc to have 100m transistors , operating at clock speeds approaching a billion cycles and deliver two billion instructions a second . |
15 | The market expects a jump in profits from £3.4m to £4.2m pre-tax this year and news of further contract awards , together with a few senior management appointments , is expected soon . |
16 | Currently , the spread is about ten points , suggesting that the market expects a default rate of about 10% . |
17 | Their parents had travelled thousands of miles , from all parts of the globe , to make a new home in quiet England , safe among the ashes of empire , only to have their children greeted by Mr Malik , a man more exotic than any schoolboy had a right to expect a teacher to be . |
18 | ‘ Anyway , I have no right to expect a present , as I have n't done anything to deserve one . ’ |