Example sentences of "expecting [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A falling yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term rates to be lower in the future . |
2 | A humped yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term interest rates to rise and long-term rates to fall . |
3 | Joe was up in Long Field with Oz and the cabbage plants , expecting Jinny to join him . |
4 | Li Shai Tung looked about him , expecting strong disagreement with Tsu Ma 's remarks , but there was nothing . |
5 | If investors are expecting inflationary pressures in the future , the yield curve will be rising , while if they are anticipating disinflationary pressures , the yield curve will be falling . |
6 | Investors provide the cash expecting high returns ; to get the money , a firm must be looking at pretty profitable investment opportunities . |
7 | I arrived expecting high rise hotels and crowded shores , instead I was treated to pretty villages built in honey coloured stone and fields of poppies . |
8 | Carol took her daughters along to the audition expecting Dannii to have the best chance of landing the part of Carla , a young Dutch girl . |
9 | Anne was sort of expecting blubbery cabinet ministers and worn clergymen , slavering and ready to practise their secret vices , but the guests turned out to be unidentifiable nobodies . |
10 | Even so , when handling and riding horses , we really need to be able to anticipate their emotions , actions and reactions , rather than simply expecting perfect behaviour and performance from them . |
11 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
12 | He had spoken in the voice of the army officer he had once been , expecting instant obedience , showing McAllister a man far removed from the one she had now known for over two months . |
13 | A rising yield curve is explained by investors expecting future short-term interest rates to rise , i.e. . |
14 | College Principal Clive Brain says there 's a growing demand for technological education and he 's expecting large numbers of applicants . |
15 | ‘ We 've had three months of investigation and it 's important that we now look forward to next year 's National when we are expecting large crowds . ’ |
16 | These are good reasons for expecting psychological well-being to be at risk . |
17 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
18 | We are , however , expecting healthy growth in home and export markets . |
19 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
20 | There were also problems with halftone screens but anyone expecting decent halftones at 300 or even 600dpi is on a loser anyway . |
21 | Jim Eastlake , an analyst at Dataquest , reckons that most chip consumers were ( sensibly ) expecting memory-chip prices to fall by 5–10% in the first three months of 1991 . |
22 | It 's absolutely no good expecting international players to develop the correct habits of fitness , conditioning and preparation if we do n't instil them at club level . |
23 | The market is now expecting pre-tax profits to emerge at about £70m this year , a far cry from the £138m taxable profits reported in 1988 . |
24 | Earlier this week the management was confidently expecting firm production orders within a matter of days . |
25 | We 're expecting good news from the States and there should be a knock-on effect . " |
26 | Weekend press comment about the fragility of the recovery meant they were not expecting good news . |
27 | Expecting yawning boredom , I found it riveting . |
28 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
29 | Larder , who has given the captaincy to tough utility forward Paul Hulme , is also expecting great things from giant Welsh second rower Paul Moriarty . |
30 | But I 'm expecting great things of you , too . " |