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 . "
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