Example sentences of "expect [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1992-93 , Trainload Freight expected to carry 18.35 million tonnes of freight for PowerGen , but that figure is now likely to be as high as 19.6 million tonnes . |
| 2 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
| 3 | The showpiece projects are the Concord Centre and Glass City expected to attract two million visitors and 2,000 jobs . |
| 4 | Currently , the Royal Navy is expected to carry 512 nuclear warheads on its Trident fleet . |
| 5 | Today 's Green Paper is expected to contain two separate methods of enabling employers to take action in the civil courts against the organisers of unofficial strikes . |
| 6 | A two-day rave which was expected to attract thirty thousand people has been cancelled . |
| 7 | IBM is expected to launch 18 new ES/9000s mainframes this Tuesday , ranging from air-cooled 9121 frame models to the eight-way 9021 . |
| 8 | The plan allowed for IR4,500,000 million in agricultural investment , and was expected to create 2,000,000 new jobs . |
| 9 | The adverts are expected to reach 6.3 million readers in that period , a figure calculated from the audited circulation of each publication . |
| 10 | The package was designed to reduce expenditure by 30,000 million kronor in the financial year to June 30 , 1993 , to cut a deficit which was otherwise expected to reach 160,000 million kronor ( US$1.00=5.9855 as at Nov. 16 , 1992 ) . |
| 11 | The entertainers behind the charity , Les Restaurants du Coeur , expect to serve 25 million meals before spring . |
| 12 | Their promised availability and utilisation was such that one new vehicle was expected to replace two old ones , and thus considerable cost savings were ensured . |
| 13 | The £156-a-year cap on losses is expected to help 6 million people in the first year of the poll tax . |
| 14 | The 600-megawatt Rotterdam station , due to begin operation in the mid-1990's , is expected to discharge 75 million tons of CO2 over its 25 year lifetime . |
| 15 | But to help users make the transition from VAX architectures to Alpha , the company is expected to unveil 35 open systems migration centres around the world at next week 's Open Forum conference in Utrecht , Netherlands . |
| 16 | He was expected to employ six able well-experienced and sufficient miners for nine months in each year , and as soon as " Tenn Tunns " be raised , to employ ten able well-experienced workmen to dress the ore . |
| 17 | There are currently 53 collieries in operation , which are expected to produce 68 million tonnes this financial year . |
| 18 | We might therefore expect to find two local modes of rather similar frequency . |
| 19 | This morning I woke up to discover another major British engineering company expected to require 5,000 fewer workers . |
| 20 | The company expects to hire 40 more staff when new factories are up and running |
| 21 | Elonex Plc is to contract manufacturing of its personal computers to Cordata Ltd , described as a new company and not related to the Cor-data Technologies owned by Daewoo Electronics Co : this Cordata is building a £5.5m contract manufacturing plant in Cumbernauld , Scotland , where it expects to create 175 new jobs and make 100,000 personal computers a year , and Elonex will turn its North London plant over to final assembly and testing . |
| 22 | Ariana , initially started in France , has already corralled one partner , the UK firm IXI Ltd , and expects to sign three this year including Network Computing Devices Inc , first for its PC Xview product and later for its full terminal line . |
| 23 | The first phase of production , expected to yield 22,667,000 cubic metres of gas per day , began on Sept. 3 the North Field ( off the north-east coast of Qatar ) — the world 's largest known gas field . |
| 24 | Kinnear , who said he expected to make one more signing this week-end , looked forward to Jones the manager with a wry smile . |