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

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1 The duo face competition from at least five bank-led consortia , all vying to operate the network , which should be up and running by 1995 , with the licence award expected this autumn .
2 Take the case in which the price level expected next period is always equal to this period 's actual price level .
3 MIDDLESBROUGH expect 10,000 season ticket holders to back their Premier League campaign .
4 Most researchers expect global temperatures to have experienced about half the predicted equilibrium temperature by the 2030s , that is , 1–2 C warmer than it is now .
5 WinPad is expected to enable system manufacturers to design 1 lb pen-based machines that can span the $400 to $1,500 mobile computing market , with first products expected next year .
6 Normally , however , ordinary shareholders expect lower yields than preference shareholders and loan stock holders because of their participation rights .
7 COMPUTERVISION EXPECT CONTINUED GROWTH
8 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 .
9 Other demographic factors which have a considerable influence on household formation are less easy to predict — one is marriage : for example , the 1978-based official population projections expected two-thirds more married men in the 20–24 age band than were actually found in 1985 ( Population Projections 1978–2018. 1980 ; Sparks , 1986 , p. 24 ) .
10 But with a lower costs base and 6 p.c. rise in advertising revenue expected this year , the company is dipping into reserves to lift the dividend total 11 p.c. to 16p , with a 13⅛p final on June 8 .
11 From this type of starting-point the SDPP expected two things to flow , namely the capturing of a long-term vision within which short-term goals were to be set and , second , a relief in teacher stress .
12 With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July .
13 These transformations of legal systems do not necessarily represent an insidious increase in the growth of a hidden power elite , although radical authors expect this result .
14 Pluralists and some Marxists expect such institutions to indoctrinate policy-influentials with the need to perform their organizationally defined roles .
15 Clients expect high-level advice and in a constantly evolving technical profession , training is a prerequisite for competence .
16 Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word .
17 It would have been unreasonable of the author/translator to expect this item of information to remain in the reader 's consciousness after three intervening pages and an explicitly marked change of scene or topic .
18 The report also warns drinkers to expect big differences in prices between locals in the same town , with upmarket pubs in prime locations charging more than a no-frills bar on the outskirts .
19 Manager Mark Ferguson warns his side to expect another tough battle but says : ‘ You can throw the form book away before this match ; it 's been shown at all levels that the cup has no respect for league positions .
20 Claman sets out to explore in depth fundamental questions , but readers expecting such will be left unfulfilled and let down .
21 DIPLOMATS and journalists expecting lavish Euro hospitality at the Edinburgh Summit came away empty-handed yesterday .
22 The travel industry expects more cutbacks as holidays are sacrificed to meet the mounting cost of household bills .
23 Roche took St Jovite into No. 1 spot , but the photo went against him and Dr Devious 's trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam expects more improvement from his horse .
24 CIOB , CIBSE and RICS all look for 20 hours per year , while the RTPI expects 25 hours .
25 BACHMAN EXPECTS LOWER THIRD QUARTER REVENUES
26 Might the university expect better grades than they asked for previously ?
27 Work on the production line starts in the next couple of days with the sales of the Vauxhall Cavalier and Opel Vextra containing the engine expected next spring .
28 He smiled and lifted his champagne glass to his lips and Ruth expected some sort of challenge thrown out but none came and a strange feeling percolated inside her , almost disappointment , but she shooed away the notion .
29 IF THE Chancellor expected consistent advice backed by irresistible logic from the first submission from his seven wise men , he will have been disappointed by their 80-page text plus statistical appendix yesterday .
30 ‘ I 'm sure the All Blacks expect six games against Welsh clubs culminating in an international at the Arms Park to be a hard tour .
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