Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | These are good reasons for expecting psychological well-being to be at risk . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | We are not in the business of expecting other people who can ill afford it to pick up the cost of a single person 's discount for the rich . |
4 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
5 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
6 | But he retained feelings of gratitude for the chances he had been given and he allowed others later to mount several of his works for the University Ballet without expecting any fee . |