Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked into the town feeling like a pirate or Border robber descending upon capon-fed middlemen , moneylenders , retired or expecting to retire . |
| 2 | As the TOM allows investors to avoid purchasing shares , the higher the actual and expected levels of interest rates the greater the incentive to use options and delay the acquisition of shares in order to benefit from the rates of return prevailing or expected in the money markets . |
| 3 | Having done this and expecting immediate reprisals , it then runs for cover . |
| 4 | Naturally the best rates are offered when interest rates are high and expected to rise even further . |
| 5 | The best rates are offered when interest rates are high and expected to rise even further . |
| 6 | But at the low interest rate , Oi 3 , bonds become so unattractive ( because their prices are high and expected to fall ) that the speculative demand for money becomes perfectly elastic . |
| 7 | It sees no recovery in the world economy in 1993 and expects sales in real terms to be flat . |
| 8 | This position as ‘ also attending ’ in the daily panoply of style was not for want of effort : ‘ the Dedicated Follower of Fashion ’ was no sartorial doormat ; but it was acceptable and expected that the female , complete with which ever secondary sexual characteristic was currently ‘ in ’ , should be the object of absolute scrutiny . |
| 9 | Michele is 22 and expecting her fifth baby — her children have been fathered by two different men . |
| 10 | Take a single dose of Sulphur 30 but expect the thrush to get worse in three or four days ' time before it will get better . |
| 11 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 12 | SHARES in Waste Management International , the waste disposal group being floated in London by its American parent , were priced a shade lower than expected at 585p yesterday , before jumping to 612p on the grey market . |
| 13 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices . |
| 14 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 15 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 16 | If unions or individuals bargain for , and receive , wages on the basis of an expected rate of inflation that does not occur , then real wages will be higher or lower than expected over the period of the bargain . |
| 17 | LOTHIAN Region 's council tax will be lower than expected a a result of savings made from a year of spending restraints , it emerged yesterday . |
| 18 | LOTHIAN 's council tax will be lower than expected due to savings made from a year of spending restraints . |
| 19 | Stevenson would certainly respond by insisting that however much our conception of the world is socially determined , and even if there is no level of brute fact which is just how things are , there is still all the difference between a socially agreed mode of representing actual or expected , but not necessarily welcomed , reality , and an effort to decide on what to favour and what disfavour in this reality . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's statistics suggest the trade gap will be slightly bigger than expected this year , mainly due to recession among some of Britain 's key trading partners , notably Germany . |
| 21 | The simplest one is the straight-line method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the original cost of the asset over its anticipated life ; for example , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years will be 20 per year . |
| 22 | For example if the writing-down allowance ( rate of depreciation ) is 25 per cent , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years is determined as follows : |
| 23 | Dinner 's fine , but it 's on me , as long as you do n't get picky and expect anything too complicated . |
| 24 | Dolphin recorded a loss for 1991 but expects to break even this year on revenues of around £10m . |
| 25 | Yet , according to calculations by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals , the two universities performed much as expected , given their subject mix . |
| 26 | The Commerce Department 's index of leading economic indicators fell twice as much as expected during November . |
| 27 | Much credit is due to both crews for maintaining their form so well in a race which went much as expected , with Ian Gardiner 's excellent rhythm probably proving decisive . |
| 28 | When nominations closed on Wednesday afternoon , four candidates had entered the contest for the Winchester parliamentary seat on April 9th , very much as expected . |
| 29 | We saved money , but not nearly as much as expected . |
| 30 | Since then performance has been much as expected . |