Example sentences of "expecting [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 2 | Sydney , Australia 's Dawn Technologies Pty has formed Auspex Systems Australia to market Auspex 's servers there and in New Zealand expecting $3m in sales its first year . |
| 3 | And meanwhile we 'll keep going you know and er and do what we have to do which is to make sure that when they get dow when they get round to that table sitting down that well certainly the the quarry men are not gon na be hungry if if you know what I mean I mean they they gon na sit there with full bellies in a sense that they 're not gon na be starved back and I mean th that sounds rather dramatic and a cliched but I mean when you 're living on the bread line and expecting money from week to week I mean that 's what it 's all about is n't it you know and and the food parcel . |
| 4 | The right hand pulling on a not very positive lay-off and the left gripping a tenuous pinch , I moved up , expecting friction on the slab above to take me to a small shelf . |
| 5 | Had she been expecting Naylor to be stuck for words or , now that the moment of carrying out the plan he had put to her had arrived , ducking it , then she was disappointed on both counts . |
| 6 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 7 | At seven-thirty the Prime Minister was expecting Kenneth Clarke and John Patten , together with silly old Webb-Bowen and his minder . |
| 8 | With Amstrad shares edging ahead to 29p , just 1p below the offer price , analysts were expecting shareholders to hold out for a better offer . |
| 9 | We are expecting exports to rise by 6 per cent . |
| 10 | Nat tells Tony , expecting sympathy and assistance . |
| 11 | It was a very contrary thought ; after all , she had been so vague that last night together , making excuses to go back to England and honestly expecting Fernando to override them and come charging after her , exercising the caveman approach that a lot of women , in spite of their liberation , still craved — in this case Ruth , astonishingly , being one of them . |
| 12 | Observers are expecting DEC to rename its OSF/1 software soon . |
| 13 | between support staff ( such as expecting SEN staff to focus on methods of achieving ‘ educational results ’ without also attending to the interactional emotional and behavioural context of learning failure , seen as the remit of pastoral care , counselling and the psychological services ) |
| 14 | Greece and Spain expect emissions to rise by at least 25 per cent and Portugal is expecting rise of between 29-39 per cent , depending on economic growth . |
| 15 | Expecting part timers to perform full time duties is difficult to dislodge , and the temptation to use them as ‘ fillers ’ for odd jobs remains . |
| 16 | I was expecting Jim . ’ |
| 17 | The other men were standing well to one side expecting violence and the soldier finished his cigarette and put his hands into his pockets instead of holding them high . |
| 18 | Catherine and Hindley were expecting presents , and they rushed eagerly to see what it was . |
| 19 | He strode to the reception desk , holding her firmly at his side , and she looked fearfully round , half expecting Dana to appear . |
| 20 | Observers are expecting multi-processors beyond the current 4-processor models , but whether these will be 88100 or 88110 machines is currently unclear . |
| 21 | as if conforming to some prearranged ceremony they grouped themselves into a semicircle with Alex Mair a little to the front , like a formal welcoming party but one bracing itself for trouble rather than expecting pleasure from the approaching guest . |
| 22 | For her and others like her it is a question of wanting it sufficiently , being prepared to put in the work and not expecting concessions because they are women . |
| 23 | They were expecting Club 18–30 , but she would be long gone before that intrusion . |
| 24 | I wore my trusty Scarpa Trionic Mantas ( £106 ) for the whole trek , as we were expecting snow and would therefore need the compatible Yeti Gaiters that help make the boots virtually waterproof . |
| 25 | you wan na see this one with location ski jacket on , I 'm expecting snow any minute |
| 26 | While one argument against expecting schools to carry an additional load of knowledge is that such knowledge , particularly in the vocational field , rapidly becomes out of date , two arguments from the other side have some lasting weight . |
| 27 | Cautiously she looked round , expecting David Markham suddenly to appear . |
| 28 | Sunwatchers : if you were expecting Texas Instruments to formally announce the Viking chip before Sun trots out its Viking boxes May 19 , take heart . |
| 29 | Manager Graham Taylor was expecting Shearer to be laid off for some while , but the extent of the injury will be worrying for all concerned . |
| 30 | Yet it is very much less easy to defend the policy of expecting parents to buy their children 's books . |