Example sentences of "[noun pl] expect [noun] " 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 And industry experts expect house prices to pick up during 1992 , although the heady escalation in prices experienced in the mid 1980s is unlikely to return .
3 Orcs expect Goblins to run away and it does n't really surprise them when this happens .
4 The analysis shows 31 p.c. of financial institutions expect business volumes to increase in the present three-month period , against 17 p.c. forecasting a fall .
5 Dictionary authors expect users to perform regular morphological processing themselves .
6 Insurers expect storm battering
7 These companies expected Speywood to spend their £4 million investment on perfecting and marketing blood proteins from conventional technology — not funding new biotechnology projects .
8 Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one .
9 Mexicans are the cheeriest : comparing optimists and pessimists , a net 76% of Mexican businessmen expect sales to rise in the second quarter of this year , compared with 69% in the first quarter .
10 Based on a survey of 250 companies , the report says that " over two thirds of companies expect operating costs to increase as a result of addressing environmental issues " and notes that " there is considerable uncertainty about the commercial benefits of responding to many environmental concerns " .
11 ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely .
12 German businessmen take a much more cheerful view of their economy than currency traders , who have lately driven the D-mark down : the balance of German companies expecting sales to rise over those expecting sales to fall is 69% , the widest margin in the chart .
13 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 .
14 That was sufficient because the early Christians expected Jesus to return immediately and set up the reign of God on earth .
15 Buyers expect salespeople to be business-like in their personal appearance and behaviour .
16 As far as Hewitt is concerned , at the very least guests expect cleanliness at a good price .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Most observers expect Barbara McDougall to be impressive at External Affairs , after her apprenticeship with the immigration portfolio and as a junior finance minister .
20 Customs expects companies to be able to satisfactorily explain why — and has incorporated into the Intrastat system an optional means of so doing .
21 Right what we 're going to do is to introduce the idea of expectations right , cos what this equation 's really saying right is that farmers expect price prevailing in T minus one alright to prevails in S T right so that 's what we 're , right , in their ex their expectation of prices in T , right are based on er current prices in sort of T minus one okay and that , that is what we would call erm expectations alright .
22 In Greece , farmers expect disaster should there be no rain next year .
23 Firms expect insurance claims to run into millions .
24 Most clinics treating fertility problems expect nurses to be the counsellor .
25 But yields on long-term bonds have been edging up since the middle of March , a sign that investors expect inflation to rise .
26 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 .
27 For investors to expect battle to commence given these circumstances is ambitious .
28 About 60 p.c. will be A bonds , so investors expecting redemption in 1994 may have to wait several extra years for full repayment : holders are likely to seek higher interest rates as compensation .
29 Domestic prices , only three regions expect prices to increase by a meaningful amount .
30 Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection .
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