Example sentences of "expects [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NETWORTH EXPECTS LOWER SALES AND PROFITS |
| 2 | Though he expects lower cereal crop yields after he completes the conversion , there is a saving of £70 an acre in the cost of pesticides and herbicides . |
| 3 | The NUS expects that core activities such as welfare services , accommodation and catering will be retained as functions directly paid for by college authorities . |
| 4 | Luckily we killed it before it became a full-blown institution and today no one seriously expects that food , or clothing , or even that overriding necessity , a television set , should be subsidised for all consumers , still less for a minority . |
| 5 | The kitchen 's perception of the restaurant manager is also fragmented in that the kitchen expects that manager to feed back customer response . |
| 6 | Anyone who is offering a proposal that requires a " yes " effort should be clear as to why he expects that effort to be made . |
| 7 | The MLC expects European pig prices to fall further this summer , before recovering in the autumn , when there are fewer pigs on the market . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He expects direct payments to be some £250m for 1993 , while a further £250m will go on the pension fund for early leavers . |
| 10 | Robertson expects some software vendors — the Oracles and Informixes of the world — to licence the relevant ANDF producer and generate ANDF versions of applications themselves , with some support from Praxis or OSF . |
| 11 | If one buys a house near a railway line , one expects some disturbance from it , and that is a factor which will no doubt be reflected in the price . |
| 12 | The firm works to relatively short product life-cycles , but still expects some learning to occur . |
| 13 | And it expects high standards from its performers : |
| 14 | Daum expects another upset . |
| 15 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Although financial director Michael Langley said that the product is approaching the end of its life , he believes ‘ there are a few years in it yet ’ , and expects 1993 sales levels to be maintained at roughly the same as 1992s . |
| 18 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 19 | STRATUS EXPECTS DIMINISHING RETURN FROM IBM |
| 20 | Potter expects this operation to show further growth and increased profits over the coming year . |
| 21 | Last year it sold 2,000 properties ; it expects this year 's total to reach 3,500 . |
| 22 | The University expects this trend to continue . |
| 23 | Harris Corp 's current mix of home-grown to purchased products is around 80:20 but over the next three to five years , O'Donnell expects this ratio to be reversed . |
| 24 | No one expects this rump of a service to be viable . |
| 25 | anyone who expects this book to be a treatise on the history of landscape painting will be disappointed … in spite of copious rewriting , lectures these pages remain . |
| 26 | And by the end of the year , it expects further sites to be fully operational in Spain and Italy . |
| 27 | With higher-fare payers slow to return , BA expects further losses in a normally buoyant first quarter . |
| 28 | The company expects 300 Alpha applications to be available by September , with more rolling out over the course of the year . |
| 29 | It expects 300 Alpha applications to be available by September . |
| 30 | Words to be underlined are " bracketed " with ∘S The program produces an output file suitable for a printer which expects such words to be bracketed by ∘Y . |