Example sentences of "[prep] expecting the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a mile or two of expecting the Range Rover in pursuit it finally came home to her that Penry had no intention of following her . |
| 2 | ( To be precise , there are four Humean conditions to satisfy , if we are to be sure that c caused e on some occasion , namely : c preceded e ; there was no intermediate event ; events like c are always followed by events like e in those conditions ; and we are in the habit of expecting the sequence . ) |
| 3 | To expose the contradictions of the world economic system by identifying soil erosion in lesser developed countries is like expecting the tail to wag the dog . |
| 4 | It 's like expecting the class system to change once the workers have explained to the ruling class why they do n't like poverty ; or racism to go away once blacks have made clear why they find it oppressive . |
| 5 | There are a number of reasons for expecting the prices of index futures to adjust faster than the spot price , i.e. the market index . |
| 6 | There are theoretical reasons , based on either the arrival rate of new information or the imposition of a minimum price movement , for expecting the distribution of price changes ( or returns ) to be non-normal . |
| 7 | The consumers of public expenditure have contributed towards the growth of public expenditure not only through expecting the government to spend more on them but also by increasing in number . |
| 8 | Rather , supporters tend to wait until the seemingly inevitable lapse of concentration in defence before expecting the side to get down to serious business . |
| 9 | We have grown used to expecting the Spirit of God to speak in a gentle whisper , not a roaring wind . |