Example sentences of "[be] expecting [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The organisers are expecting 40,000 young people to visit it during its four-day run . |
| 3 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 4 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 5 | The company is expecting another double-digit drop in mainframe sales again this year . |
| 6 | It 's a fairly low risk erm threat at the moment , air strikes are cheap er they 're not particularly dangerous whether they 're effective or not is another matter , er and there 's no immediate come back on the domestic scene because no one is expecting any one state to be the saviour in that particular situation . |
| 7 | There were various suggestions as to Balliol 's intentions in this southwards move : that his aim was first to divide the west from the east , then to work round and isolate Edinburgh ; that he knew of Sir Archibald Douglas 's mustering of his Galloway vassals and sought to keep this force from joining the main Scots array ; that perhaps he was expecting further English reinforcements from Carlisle and the West March ; and so on . |
| 8 | I , I was expecting some forty year old white , well dressed , you know Conservative |