Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE tea , vicar ? is not the sort of thing I expected to ask minutes after arriving in a Swiss ski resort . |
| 2 | ‘ I expected telling questions about Shaun leaving , although in a way , without sounding insulting to Shaun , he was one of the more faceless members of the band . |
| 3 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 4 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 5 | Julia opened her eyes again and saw Comfort looking around her as though she expected to see men in white coats with a stretcher appearing through the walls . |
| 6 | If you expect to receive information from several sources for a particular topic , the space allocated to that topic must be large , so that later notes can be added . |
| 7 | Like a bottle you expect to have whisky in and it turns out to be full of a specimen for the doctor . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , if you were a human , would you expect to see nomes on a plane ? ’ said Angalo . |
| 9 | We expected to gain insight into what these transitions mean to the individuals undergoing them so as to find ways of offering them understanding and support . |
| 10 | We expect to receive details of applications from all those eligible , including West Yorkshire , later this month , and to make decisions by the end of March . |
| 11 | Erm we expect to see improvements on chlorine , but I ca n't give you a time . |
| 12 | We expect to make progress over the next couple of weeks . |
| 13 | What factors would we expect to cause changes in the supply and demand for bills ? |
| 14 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 15 | They expected to become bishops in due course , and they performed their episcopal duties with equal ability . |
| 16 | For many gardeners , the Spring Show is an opportunity to buy the bedding plants that bring much needed early summer colour to the borders.For the nurserymen , it 's a great start to the season.Over the three days they expect to sell plants worth three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 17 | For the second consecutive month , manufacturers indicate they expect to increase output in the next four months . |
| 18 | To ask the Attorney-General when he expects to bring prosecutions under the War Crimes Act 1991 . |
| 19 | On the other hand , all three decisions confirm that an employee would be rashly optimistic if he expects to gain compensation from the mere fact the employer is selling or otherwise exploiting the patented invention with a significant measure of success . |
| 20 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food when next he expects to have talks with other European Ministers about GATT . |
| 21 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 24 | It expects to prune £4m from education . |
| 25 | NCube Inc , Foster City , California says that it expects to win agreement within three months for one of Japan 's Big Three mainframe manufacturers to start marketing its massively parallel machines , and suggests that Siemens AG may also adopt them for marketing in Europe . |
| 26 | It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis . |
| 27 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |
| 28 | WaveLAN is also approved for use in Switzerland , and NCR says that it expects to gain approval in France next month , with other countries following afterwards . |
| 29 | In the late nineteenth century the trend to lower levels of recorded crime coincided with developments which , other things being equal , would lead us to expect rising levels of recording . |