Example sentences of "[noun pl] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Normally , however , ordinary shareholders expect lower yields than preference shareholders and loan stock holders because of their participation rights . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pluralists and some Marxists expect such institutions to indoctrinate policy-influentials with the need to perform their organizationally defined roles . |
| 9 | Clients expect high-level advice and in a constantly evolving technical profession , training is a prerequisite for competence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Claman sets out to explore in depth fundamental questions , but readers expecting such will be left unfulfilled and let down . |
| 12 | DIPLOMATS and journalists expecting lavish Euro hospitality at the Edinburgh Summit came away empty-handed yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | All instructors expect this , because the student has grown used to performing the basic techniques in a linear movement . |
| 15 | ‘ Few shopkeepers expect any upturn in the next few months , ’ said a CBI spokesman . |
| 16 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont , Chancellor , pointed to surveys indicating an improvement in business confidence , with more companies expecting higher orders and sales . |
| 17 | A large proportion of firms expected this expansion to continue throughout the 1980s . |
| 18 | Because the emphasis was on family placements , residential workers and families expected other plans to be made . |
| 19 | The CBI also found that more of the region 's businesses expected new orders to increase rather than to decrease . |
| 20 | Almond and Verba , for example , found that an overwhelming majority of Britons expected equal treatment from politicians and from bureaucrats . |
| 21 | The organisers expect 500,000 spectators to line the route from Blackheath to Westminster Bridge . |
| 22 | This year 's five-day fair is the biggest so far , with 8,189 exhibitors from 93 countries ; the organisers expect 220,000 visitors . |
| 23 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 24 | Close all taps expect one HOT water tap |
| 25 | At present theoretical physicists expect other new heavy particles that could decay in a similar way , such as the so called ‘ top ’ quark . |
| 26 | However , if investors expect short-term interest rates to fall in the future they will wish to buy long-dated bonds today , thereby locking themselves into today 's long rates . |
| 27 | The risk will grow if any of the following should happen : a spike in interest rates ( forward rates already indicate that investors expect higher rates by the end of the year ) ; an unexpected collapse of the dollar ( the Federal Reserve , at the Treasury 's direction , was intervening furiously last week to prevent the already weak currency from sinking further ) ; or , let's face it , if Washington proves itself unable to wrestle down the budget deficit . |
| 28 | The study identifies few holdings where the occupiers could claim ‘ primary dependence on farming as a livelihood ’ , and that there was no valid reason for those farmers to expect any benefit from the CAP . |
| 29 | A falling yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term rates to be lower in the future . |
| 30 | A humped yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term interest rates to rise and long-term rates to fall . |