Example sentences of "expects [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sampson ( broken bone in hand ) and Anderson ( back ) may cause bigger problems but Mr Van de Velde made it clear he expects improvements from a side who were unbeaten this year until after the semi-final . |
| 2 | When children die , allegedly at the hands of parents or those responsible for their care , society expects responsibility to be allocated , and penalties paid . |
| 3 | By 2001 the government expects 90% of new jobs to be filled by women and that women will form 45% of the labour force ( Employment Gazette April 1990 ) . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects TASM to be in service ; and where they will be based . |
| 5 | InfoCorp expects shipments of multiuser systems with an average selling price between $15,000 and $1m to grow from 509,000 units in 1992 to 643,000 units in 1997 — a compound annual growth rate of 6% . |
| 6 | What I do n't want is a man who takes me out for a meal , buys a bottle of cheap plonk and expects payment in the form of instant sex , either in the back of his car , or if he gets really lucky , in my flat . |
| 7 | Hall expects 50% of Sun Commonwealth of Independent States business to come from Moscow and its surrounds . |
| 8 | Hall expects 50% of Sun CIS business to come from Moscow and its surrounds . |
| 9 | That may be true in general , but the other side of the coin is that Britain expects change in return , and puts on tremendous pressure to get that change , ’ one official said . |
| 10 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 11 | Based on current business levels and industry conditions , it expects turnover for the 1993 fiscal year to June 30 to be be between $1,250m and $1,300m . |
| 12 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 13 | Customs expects companies to be able to satisfactorily explain why — and has incorporated into the Intrastat system an optional means of so doing . |
| 14 | One expects Salzburg to be uncontaminated and clean " . |
| 15 | Nobody expects Brigadoon with tartan-skirted villagers singing softly as they fill your arms with sweet heather and invite you in to their fireside . |
| 16 | PARALLAN COMPUTER EXPECTS FALL IN SHIPMENTS |
| 17 | FIserve expects $23.5m from the offering and will use it for working capital , possible repayment of debt and acquisitions of complementary businesses . |
| 18 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |
| 19 | Tin is a metal and somehow everybody expects metals to be strong . |
| 20 | One expects durability to be a hallmark of highly specific assets . |
| 21 | New hope as cult ‘ expects sign from God' |
| 22 | By contrast , the panel expects output in continental Europe to tumble by 1% this year . |
| 23 | No one seriously expects revolution in East Germany from below . |
| 24 | For example , women have described to researchers how it is difficult to cut down on food when cooking for a partner who expects meat with his main meal ( Charles and Kerr , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | It now expects profits of £225m against earlier hopes of £243m . |
| 26 | Van Marion expects sales of its Unix product line to fall over the next year or so . |
| 27 | Indeed , OSF expects sales of DCE licences to contribute at least $55m to its coffers in 1994 . |
| 28 | It sees no recovery in the world economy in 1993 and expects sales in real terms to be flat . |
| 29 | Technology chairman Derek Lewis expects sales in the hundreds rather than thousands in the first year , but is aiming for between 5% and 10% of the UK Unix market thereafter . |
| 30 | Nobody expects councillors to be able to do sums involving three hundred and fifteen or fourteen million erm without professional help , just like any business would expect to use professional help for that . |