Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] expects [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 3 | Although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 4 | Still , although he expects margins to keep on falling during the coming year , he does believe the rate of decline will slow . |
| 5 | The system of parental contributions is unfair and unacceptable in that it expects students to remain dependent on parents into adulthood . |
| 6 | In another change of tack — there was a time when OS/2 was the whole future as far as the company was concerned , Microsoft Corp is switching its signals and is now making it clear that it expects MS-DOS users to prepare to switch to Windows NT . |
| 7 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Gergiev has nurtured a new generation of young singers in the Kirov — notably the sopranos Galina Gorchakova and Yelena Prokina , the mezzo Olga Borodina , the tenors Gegam Gregorian and Yuri Marusin — but he expects loyalty from them . |
| 12 | But he expects Wilson Bowden to build and sell 1,650 homes this year , an increase of 30 per cent on 1991 and 1992 . |
| 13 | The company said business in the first quarter was not fully satisfactory but it expects results for the full year 1993 to show an improvement over 1992 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 17 | The point is that tonight — Magnapop 's UK debut — is peppered with punky teenage licks and festering grungy rumbles , yet just as one expects lyrics concerning death , drinking and corporate rock shagging , Linda hops , hiccups and beams , ‘ Wo n't you let me walk you home from school ? /Can I meet you at the pool ? ’ |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects TASM to be in service ; and where they will be based . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects exports to reach the same level as imports . |
| 21 | To ask the Lord President of the Council when he expects results from the feasibility study on refreshment facilities for visitors to the House . |
| 22 | 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 . |