Example sentences of "it [adv] expects " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a firm buys a new machine , it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost . |
| 2 | It eventually expects to embrace implementations of parallel architectures . |
| 3 | It soon expects to announce 10 deals to lease its remaining pubs , free of any beer supply agreements , to brewers and pub operators . |
| 4 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 5 | It also expects it to build gradually over the next two quarters and then start doing something serious in the fall . |
| 6 | It now expects profits of £225m against earlier hopes of £243m . |
| 7 | The results show that Sweden can spend less than it now expects on district heating and electricity and still cut CO 2 emissions by 35 per cent by the year 2010 ( see Figure ) . |
| 8 | Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH says that it now expects its subscriber base to reach 200,000 next month , ahead of plan , but still expects the level to be between 300,000 and 350,000 by year-end ; it is still looking for profits in 1994-95 . |
| 9 | Given the critical impact of assumption on oil prices and quantities , the CEGB will clearly need to explain why , with oil prices rising so rapidly , it can not reduce its oil consumption more quickly than it currently expects . |