Example sentences of "[pron] expects [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not going to get a bike because he would n't be able to reach the pedals , but I would n't have said anything even if I could have , because nobody expects people to tell the truth to women and , besides , that 's what friends are for , as they say . |
| 2 | Contradictions in a system which expects players to concentrate on football , yet not be paid ( unless you count scholarships ? ) are causing increasing problems . |
| 3 | The bulk of domiciliary care is already provided by families , but Mrs Thatcher has made it plain that she expects families to take on extra responsibilities , and this is also apparent in the White Paper on Caring for People . |
| 4 | I think she 's very optimistic if she expects others to go by bus so that she can get her car out of Muirwood Road , to get to work in Wester Hailes . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects work to commence on upgrading the A12 Chelmsford bypass from a two-lane to a three-lane road . |
| 6 | On the PowerPC effort , Mace says the initial part will come in with around 30% less power than the 88000 , though he expects performance to converge over time . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects exports to reach the same level as imports . |
| 8 | They say he expects people to shoot the other chap in the back , if they possibly can . ’ |
| 9 | He expects Megan to work part-time to pay for groceries and clothes for herself and their three children . |
| 10 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
| 11 | The brunt of the company 's restructuring , which has lead to 18,000 layoffs in two years ( a cut of close to 30% ) , says Mr De Benedetti , is now over and he expects Olivetti to return to profit in 1994 . |
| 12 | He expects profits to dip this year from the estimated £580m in the year just ended but reach £645m next year . |
| 13 | Although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 14 | Still , although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 15 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 16 | The system of parental contributions is unfair and unacceptable in that it expects students to remain dependent on parents into adulthood . |
| 17 | It expects profitability to remain under pressure , despite recent restructuring actions aimed at achieving $50m in annual cost savings . |
| 18 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 19 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |