Example sentences of "expect a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Novell Inc is getting together with Oracle Corp on June 15 to announce ‘ a major joint initiative relating to products and strategies for Enterprise Network Computing ’ : analysts expect a strategic move in response to Microsoft Corp working closely with Sybase Inc on Windows NT , but the agreement is not thought to involve equity stakes .
2 Expect a general rise in fees of some 7–9% for the academic year starting September 1990 .
3 Most City forecasters expect a bigger fall in the current-account deficit .
4 Retailers expect a bigger improvement in June , but their expectations have proved to be over-optimistic in the past two months .
5 We certainly expect a big uplift in sales through the group as a result . ’
6 We expect a further reduction in 1993 .
7 Over the next twelve months we expect a further increase in those needing our Home Care service to enable them to live and die at home .
8 In the first month of its operation it received 280 inquiries ; but commenting on this figure , a spokesman said : ‘ We expect a dramatic increase in inquiries once head teachers come back from holiday and examine the information we have sent them ’ .
9 The first excursion of the new government in foreign affairs was a bitter disappointment to those who had expected a real change in American policy abroad .
10 I had expected a sharper tongue in the office , a brisker and more brittle approach to the anarchic thoughtlessness of the girls .
11 Others , who unlike the Combined Operations staff , had expected a second front in Europe that summer , saw what forces would be needed to invade Europe .
12 Neither Marshal Joffre , General Foch ( his deputy in the north ) nor Sir John' French had expected a German attack in Flanders .
13 We might therefore expect a commemorative poem in his honour to contain melancholy , death , and a churchyard , but the whole mood of Wordsworth 's poem is different from , say , Gray 's Elegy , a stanza of which was inscribed on Taylor 's tomb .
14 For heterosexuals up to 1991 , the peak of HIV infection had yet to be reached and so one can expect a continued rise in the annual incidence of AIDS cases for some time to come .
15 If we were to express this need openly and directly in social chit-chat we would risk offending others and we could expect a strong reaction in terms of them rejecting , over-powering or accepting us ( in this instance their luck could be in ) .
16 However , she warned , " the fact that we are entering the path of economic development does not mean that we can expect a quick jump in living standards " .
17 Next came an accusation , which Niki reports as follows , with Dennis saying , ‘ If you pay somebody such an amazing amount of money , you can surely expect a little friendship in exchange . ’
18 Immigrants will be required , as before , to send their children to French schools , and officials do not expect a significant increase in exceptions being allowed .
19 Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity .
20 Very well , no-one would expect a leading article in a newspaper — even a newspaper like this one which has , we hope , a reputation for behaving responsibly — to applaud plans to curb the freedom of the press .
21 Using that as their base-line ( or why would they have contracted her ? ) they would expect a high performance in her theoretical IQ .
22 Economy simply relates to the best use of resources and as budgets are delegated we can expect a welcome change in attitudes towards waste .
23 As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed .
24 If they decide to put some financial weight behind his thinking , Britain 's research in medicine and health can expect a gigantic shot in the arm .
25 Using high copy number Long transgenics , one would expect a copy-dependent signal in the DNase I hypersensitivity assay .
26 WHOEVER wins the qualifying game between Belfast 's Alan McMullan and the Provincial 's Ian McClure can expect a tough battle in the opening quarter-final of the Flogas Causeway Coast Masters in Ballymoney on October 9-10 .
27 WHOEVER wins the qualifying game between Belfast 's Alan McMullan and the Provincial 's Ian McClure can expect a tough battle in the opening quarter-final of the Flogas Causeway Coast Masters in Ballymoney on October 9–10 .
28 Consequently , if unemployment and poverty continue to spread into the Wirral population , we can expect a related increase in the number of potential heroin users ( cf.
29 one would expect a large variation in the fluency with which teachers can instruct in sign language ; many would have had no more than a relatively short course .
30 And no region of Britain can expect an overall increase in employment during 1993 , says a poll of 2,000 companies by the Manpower job agency .
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