Example sentences of "expects [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MLC expects European pig prices to fall further this summer , before recovering in the autumn , when there are fewer pigs on the market . |
| 2 | Even if the North Sea oil bonus is stripped out , the firm expects Scottish growth of 1.4 per cent after a fall of 1.3 per cent in non-oil output between 1991 and 1992 . |
| 3 | Will he confirm , in line with undertakings given at the time of privatisation , that he expects British Steel to consider offers for the sale of Ravenscraig on a commercial basis at opportunity cost — at a price which British Steel could expect to get for the plant on world markets ? |
| 4 | STRATUS EXPECTS DIMINISHING RETURN FROM IBM |
| 5 | NEC Corp expects personal computer shipments in 1993-94 to increase by 10% to 1.37m units as a result of the government 's increased spending on computers for schools and public institutions : according to Reuter , NEC sees its personal computer sales rising in the second half of the fiscal when public institutions start to introduce the machines ; in the year to March , NEC 's personal computer shipments were down by 5% . |
| 6 | But recovery , the OECD argues ( with a familiar ring ) , is just around the corner : it expects average growth next year to rise to 2.7% . |
| 7 | After all , this is a heavy , man-sized aircraft , so one expects he-man control forces . |
| 8 | Spencer Brown , TriQuint 's executive vice president and chief financial officer , says that the federal contribution enabled Gazelle to continue improving its technology and that the company expects increased demand for its products if a national information superhighway becomes a reality ( see Nature 362 , 582 ; 1993 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Dr Marvin Goldberg , chief executive , expects continued growth in private health care . |
| 11 | He expects continued growth in the United States but did not elaborate . |
| 12 | ANZ McCaughan 's Alastair Irvine expects dramatic profit progress from £1.8m to £8.4m in the year just ended and then to £12m this year . |
| 13 | The tradesman expects heavy use from his machinery , and will replace brushes himself to save on ‘ down time ’ . |
| 14 | RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin congratulated president-elect Bill Clinton and expects growing co-operation between the two countries , a Moscow spokesman said . |
| 15 | If he expects immediate reaction to this suggestion his child is contaminating his adult . |
| 16 | NCR expects general availability by June for the workstation , third quarter for the servers , and ‘ 1994 ’ for the 16 processor 3555 . |
| 17 | NCR expects general availability by June for the workstation , third quarter for the servers , and ‘ 1994 ’ for the 16 processor 3555 . |
| 18 | Olivetti will continue to supply Hitachi Ltd mainframes in Italy , though it expects top-of-the-range Alpha systems to take sales away from the Japanese kit . |
| 19 | One expects military sculpture to be massive and crude , and this is very true of a Hercules scene from Corbridge from the Chapel of the Standards in the western principia ( Site xiv ) . |
| 20 | The public expects high-quality care for wounds from health-care professionals . |
| 21 | It expects packaged Unix software sales to grow by a compound rate of 22% a year to 1997 in Europe . |
| 22 | It expects packaged Unix software sales to grow by a compound rate of 22% a year between now and 1997 in Europe . |