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His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.
The program has the expectation that young dads will legitimize their children by acknowledging paternity.
The lessee would have a reasonable expectation that the consent is really only a matter of form by that stage.
He said yields and quality for the major cereal crops of winter wheat and spring barley are above expectation.
The expectation was for an abrupt decline in consumer expenditures that, in fact, did not materialize.
Even enjoying someone's company becomes loaded with expectation and social convention, fears that this will lead to that, and then, bang!
The producer's expectation is to realize at least a maximized lower-level confidence limit of gross margin.
A homeowner who plants a mango tree does so with the expectation that mangoes will be reaped.
This machine lived up to expectation with great climb and descent rates coupled with a low fuel burn.
Throughout the group there was an almost tangible feeling of excited expectation that she couldn't understand.
The resulting gap between expectation and reality has already caused ructions in the town hall budget.
Do not assume you will ever be a winner in the long run at negative expectation games.
The inversion of normal architectonic expectation is not just wilful, but has immense importance for the nature of space and experience.
I've cleared my calendar at work for the next two weeks, I've ironed a presentable shirt and I'm all aquiver in eager expectation.
With antimicrobials our expectation is that the infecting pathogen will be killed, but the myriad normal bacteria are also exposed.
If until now hope has come from your expectation of a cure, then ending your treatment might seem like giving up hope.
Because of this expectation that the accepter will somehow requite the gift, Scripture tells us to be very selective in accepting gifts.
English domestic law imposes a constraint upon the applicability of the doctrine of legitimate expectation.
They are looking at the camera with expectation that amounts almost to joy.
To have won a major title at the age of 17 was a remarkable feat but it landed her with a frightening burden of expectation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She paused, with a look of expectation, as if she waited for my consenting answer.
I did not sleep much, for I was strung too high with expectation, and I envied Blenkiron his now eupeptic slumbers.
Mr. Bright, contrary to all expectation, became President of the Board of Trade.
It is a reasonable expectation that the application will serve through a crop rotation of four or five years.
We have here two interrelated elements, namely the content and the expectation.
There is also an expectation of centralism, and thus hierarchy and discipline.
Madame chalumeau's face, glossy and red-and-white like a Norman apple, wore an expression of anxious expectation.
Peregrine, glowing with resentment, called him a fanfaron, and withdrew in expectation of being followed into the street.
I was on the eve of my fifteenth birthday, and I was in a state of expectation as to the future of my life.
What I had descried had quite belied my expectation, and had been totally unforeseen.
I have forborne to write to him for some time, in expectation that he was on his way.
For every expectation that he fulfilled there was another that he destroyed.
American producers of very fine wool have ever fed an expectation, but never obtained the fruition of their hopes.
He had left school because his father needed him on the farm and he had abandoned the expectation of further education.
As we drove along towards the art union Gallery, the fair enthusiast was all eager expectation.
Thither, however, I went with some secret expectation of a scantling of good claret.
He seemed, indeed, to have been impressed with an expectation that he should fall in the battle.
As subsequent events have shown, however, that expectation was not realized.
The increased value of slave labor, in the culture of cotton and sugar, prevented the realization of this expectation.
In 1588 the fortress was garrisoned in expectation of a landing by the Spanish Armada.
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