Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year , we expect public service standards to be ratcheted up . |
| 2 | The predictions co-incided with a survey by the recruitment firm , Manpower , which shows that Scotland — along with the west of England , Yorkshire and Humberside — is one of the few areas where employers expect better job prospects in the spring . |
| 3 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 4 | One would expect existing sentence patterns to be stabilised in use , and to be only minimally disturbed upon being combined to form more complex syntactic units . |
| 5 | One would expect self-selected leisure activities to be different from and complementary to those at work . |
| 6 | Hungry OEMs — of the likes of Dell Computer Corp , CompuAdd Corp , AST Research Inc , and Toshiba Corp — can expect first developers kits in October , Sunsoft claims . |
| 7 | In this case , individuals will expect the rate to rise in the near future and so will expect potential capital losses for bond-holders . |
| 8 | Two animal rights campaigners have been told to expect long jail sentences after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson . |
| 9 | The implication that ‘ easy money ’ was made available to some fundholders was reinforced by reports in January 1992 that some were expecting six figure savings from their hospital treatment budgets by the end of the financial year . |
| 10 | Earlier this week the management was confidently expecting firm production orders within a matter of days . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The company expects 300 Alpha applications to be available by September , with more rolling out over the course of the year . |
| 13 | It expects 300 Alpha applications to be available by September . |
| 14 | 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% . |
| 15 | The Rural Development Commission expects 100,000 job losses in agriculture over the next decade and 50,000 associated redundancies because of CAP reform . |
| 16 | Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors . |