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 Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one .
8 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 .
9 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 " .
10 Buyers expect salespeople to be business-like in their personal appearance and behaviour .
11 As far as Hewitt is concerned , at the very least guests expect cleanliness at a good price .
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 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 .
16 In Greece , farmers expect disaster should there be no rain next year .
17 Firms expect insurance claims to run into millions .
18 Most clinics treating fertility problems expect nurses to be the counsellor .
19 But yields on long-term bonds have been edging up since the middle of March , a sign that investors expect inflation to rise .
20 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 .
21 Domestic prices , only three regions expect prices to increase by a meaningful amount .
22 Yet when Professor Lester Williams as an educationist addressed the American Library Association conference on " What the school expects of the school librarian " there was something of a ring of novelty in his style when ( after the usual platitudes about " the library as a workshop " ) he went on : " Teachers expect librarians to act as a service agency in providing and dispensing all manner of instructional aids , such as phonograph records , clippings of fleeting materials , films , slides , pictures …
23 Many forecasters expect France 's economy to grow by only 1.5% in 1991 , down from 4% in both 1988 and 1989 and from an estimated 2.6% last year .
24 These systems expect data to be presented to them in terms of relations and normally present results to users in the form of relations .
25 NURSES EXPECT PRESSURE FROM DRUG GIANTS
26 Throughout the Plowden Report runs the assumption that what is taught in schools ( ie what we , the adults expect children to learn ) must relate to where the child is ( intellectually , social , emotionally ) rather than to where we think the child ought to be .
27 Er I wonder if there is in fact er a a view that women expect men to have of them that 's th the desirable woman ?
28 At an annual rate , GDP grew by just 1.8% in the first quarter of the year ; most commentators expect growth for the year to be no more than 2.5% , if that .
29 This is approaching the temperature below which theoreticians expect atoms to fuse together in a new kind of matter .
30 Most career jobs expect people to work more than nine-to-five hours , to travel abroad or move house if necessary , maybe to attend conferences at weekends or socialise in the evenings ; in short , to put work before family .
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