Example sentences of "[noun] expect [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 And City experts expect Germany 's Bundesbank to cut its interest rates early in the New Year .
2 These companies expected Speywood to spend their £4 million investment on perfecting and marketing blood proteins from conventional technology — not funding new biotechnology projects .
3 There was a policeman at the bottom of the bed , so perhaps it was a silly question to expect Charley to answer .
4 SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale expects Chesterfield to attack his side in tonight 's rearranged Fourth Division match at the McCain Stadium .
5 The fact that a significant number of the independents who were elected were DLP sympathizers who had failed to secure party endorsement as candidates , meant that most observers expected Roh to be able to construct a working majority within the new Assembly .
6 Marshall expected Wickham to draw back , let Pascoe 's temper subside and then wheedle the truth .
7 Nor had he for one moment expected Wang to offer another shipment .
8 That was sufficient because the early Christians expected Jesus to return immediately and set up the reign of God on earth .
9 The Qatar News Agency quoted an unidentified Islamic Jihad spokesman as saying that his group expected Israel " to reciprocate by releasing another group of Arab prisoners " .
10 The group expected Charman to be upset but they were taken aback at his extreme response .
11 That was the rarest of murders and Rain expected Maurin knew it , too .
12 However , City economists expect Britain 's trade deficit to improve , but with few expecting next year 's trade gap to be better than the £15 billion figure forecast by Mr Major in his autumn statement .
13 By 1990 , industry observers expect Japan to account for 30 per cent of world sales of computer-related goods , compared with 11.2 per cent in December 1980 .
14 Most observers expect Barbara McDougall to be impressive at External Affairs , after her apprenticeship with the immigration portfolio and as a junior finance minister .
15 LARGE investors expect London share prices to fall still further , some by as much as 20 per cent , after yesterday 's sharp drop on the stock market .
16 Dishonesty is also brought out in this scene , when the Duke expects Shylock to forgive Antonio in line 23 ‘ which is a pound of this poor merchant 's flesh , thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture , but touch with human gentleness and love , Forgive a moiety of the principal ; ’ .
17 Smith New Court expects AMI 's profits to have reached £20.5m in the year just ended with £24.5m likely this year .
18 CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont expects Britain 's five million public sector workers to follow his own lead in keeping pay rises down .
19 But while Carroll expects Cahill to make his presence felt , he is also determined to see a much more concerted effort from the Blues ' defence .
20 This explains the curious fact that so few people expected de Gaulle to return before May , but , once he had returned , so many placed their confidence in him .
21 The Chancellor said the European Commission expected Britain to be the fastest growing of all the major European economies , this year and next .
22 A ‘ chew and choke ’ was a transport cafe and the ‘ Bears ’ meant the police , but it was no use expecting Danny to use plain English on a rig .
23 Hewlett-Packard expects COSE to deliver a measure of source code compatibility for applications across various Unix architectures in its initial guise — a binary compatible environment allowing applications to run on multiple systems is seen as the net result of future COSE specifications .
24 Grove expects Intel to invest $1,600m on capital equipment this year .
25 Athelstan expected Cranston to mount his horse and ride back to Cheapside but the coroner shook his head .
26 Few people in Japan expect Mr Gorbachev to make more than a few diplomatic utterances about the islands while in Tokyo .
27 The firm expects Europe to contribute another 10% in revenues by the end of the year .
28 USL expects Sparc compatible builders like ICL plc to pick up the former , with the Japanese and maybe firms in the Mips ABI group going for the other .
29 HP expects COSE to deliver a measure of source code compatibility for applications across various Unix architectures in its initial guise — a binary compatible environment allowing applications to run on multiple platforms is seen as the net result of future COSE specifications .
30 The Secretary of State expects LEAs to give a ‘ clear and explicit ’ ( 1988b ) basis for devising or amending a resource-allocation formula so that all concerned understand exactly how it operates .
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