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 | We certainly expect a big uplift in sales through the group as a result . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Neither Marshal Joffre , General Foch ( his deputy in the north ) nor Sir John' French had expected a German attack in Flanders . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Using that as their base-line ( or why would they have contracted her ? ) they would expect a high performance in her theoretical IQ . |
| 16 | Economy simply relates to the best use of resources and as budgets are delegated we can expect a welcome change in attitudes towards waste . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Using high copy number Long transgenics , one would expect a copy-dependent signal in the DNase I hypersensitivity assay . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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. |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But if there were a sea change , and they became the majority that meat eaters are at present , and if this were fuelled by the arguments of Regan or Singer , then surely it would be reasonable to expect a knock-on effect in the other contentious areas . |
| 25 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 26 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 27 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 28 | Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future , even though he expected a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year — a rise of perhaps about 7 per cent to 1.7 million . |
| 29 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 30 | A survey by the Engineering Employers ' Federation into the effects of new anti-pollution legislation has concluded that up to 50 companies may go out of business ; 200 are expecting a serious decline in profitability , and many hundreds more are uncertain about their future . |