Example sentences of "be expecting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're expecting good news from the States and there should be a knock-on effect . " |
| 2 | We 're expecting some students to get merit . |
| 3 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 4 | He says the men at the base enjoy it and they 're expecting forty to fifty thousand visitors . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe they 're expecting another explosion ? ’ |
| 6 | We 're expecting another one in June . |
| 7 | We are expecting 120 kids — Praise God ! ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nurses in the USA are expecting better time ahead after the election of Bill Clinton as president last week . |
| 10 | We are expecting much more of patients than in the past . |
| 11 | The organisers are expecting 40,000 young people to visit it during its four-day run . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | For Jacqui and her husband , bank official David Thompson are expecting another child next month . |
| 15 | ‘ I was n't in Belfast for the second leg but from what I saw on television they gave Tbilisi a lot of problems and that 's what we are expecting next week . |
| 16 | If you are expecting thousands of entries the format will need to be such that it is easy to eliminate incorrect entries . |
| 17 | Many young people coming into industry and commerce have a basic knowledge of marketing techniques and employers are expecting more of their marketing people . |
| 18 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
| 19 | Esau can not have been expecting such remorse , such willingness to make amends from Jacob . |
| 20 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 21 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 22 | Until now , the organisers had been expecting 15,000 participants ( 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials ) , and the Olympic village was constructed with this in mind . |
| 23 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 24 | France has been expecting heavy snow all week to 1200m … and still waits . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 29 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 30 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |