Example sentences of "[noun] expecting a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is Mr Marshall expecting a Hollywood-style transformation of the club 's fortunes on the field . |
| 2 | ‘ Export prospects look brighter with smaller firms expecting a slight increase in orders in the next four months . |
| 3 | Mary Ingham , also from Leeds , said she had booked to see Swan Lake expecting a traditional production . |
| 4 | Reception arrangements often went badly : a rural area expecting a few dozen docile grammar-school girls could find itself , at ten o'clock in the evening , invaded by a hundred resentful East End mothers with exhausted and fretful babies . |
| 5 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 6 | Your article , Antenatal Tests , did not mention that mothers expecting a multiple birth are usually advised against having amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling . |
| 7 | James turned up at the docks expecting a luxury liner , only to find a cargo ship and a deck-hand 's job waiting for him . |