Example sentences of "expecting [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A humped yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term interest rates to rise and long-term rates to fall . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The implication that ‘ easy money ’ was made available to some fundholders was reinforced by reports in January 1992 that some were expecting six figure savings from their hospital treatment budgets by the end of the financial year . |
| 5 | Earlier this week the management was confidently expecting firm production orders within a matter of days . |
| 6 | Again I was expecting military style spick and span . |