Example sentences of "expecting [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Amstrad shares edging ahead to 29p , just 1p below the offer price , analysts were expecting shareholders to hold out for a better offer . |
| 2 | We are expecting exports to rise by 6 per cent . |
| 3 | Catherine and Hindley were expecting presents , and they rushed eagerly to see what it was . |
| 4 | Observers are expecting multi-processors beyond the current 4-processor models , but whether these will be 88100 or 88110 machines is currently unclear . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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carry an additional load of knowledge is that such knowledge , particularly in the vocational field , rapidly becomes out of date , two arguments from the other side have some lasting weight . |
| 7 | Yet it is very much less easy to defend the policy of expecting parents to buy their children 's books . |
| 8 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 9 | ‘ Expecting visitors ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm expecting visitors later this evening , ’ Talbot said . |
| 11 | I though we were expecting visitors today . " |
| 12 | The bell rang before she could open it and Jenna stood just inside the sitting-room in her long housecoat , wondering who on earth it could be ; the post had arrived over an hour ago and she did n't know enough people to be expecting visitors . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , are you expecting visitors ? |
| 14 | ‘ I was n't expecting visitors . |
| 15 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 16 | It is not to be confused with various autobiographies but those expecting warts to be exposed will be disappointed . |
| 17 | ‘ Well not then no just to warn him I 'm expecting guests … |
| 18 | ‘ We are expecting things to pick up generally , ’ he says . |
| 19 | I know that a lot of blacks are just expecting things to come to them ; they 're sort of free living , it 's our nature to sit down and enjoy life . |
| 20 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 21 | She still retained her English habit of noting each day 's weather , always expecting changes , marvelling at the hot sunny days which followed one after the other , almost with monotony . |
| 22 | She had been expecting changes and had steeled herself not to resent them . |
| 23 | First , the interviewer will be expecting questions related to the company and what the job involves . |
| 24 | If you are expecting jokes , they are seldom as good in fact as in prospect . |
| 25 | The group is expecting customers to be banks , processors and others linked to farming as well as ‘ agro-industrial multinationals ’ , co-operatives and commodity boards . |
| 26 | Frying-pan in hand , she is saying she has nothing for us , she had n't been expecting customers ; at this time of year there are visitors only at weekends . |
| 27 | Claimants include families of the 95 soccer fans killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster — some expecting cheques this week . |
| 28 | From Jeff 's description , she 'd been expecting horns and cloven hoofs ! |
| 29 | The smiles were cautious , expecting rebuffs . |
| 30 | Central committee secretary Valentin Falin immediately contacted Gorbachev , expecting instructions . |