noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a realistic expectation
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There are no realistic expectations of improvement.
come up to expectations
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The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations .
exceeded...expectations
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His performance exceeded our expectations .
fell short of...expectations
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Shares in the company dropped 26p yesterday, as profits fell short of City expectations .
have high hopes/expectations
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Like many young actors, I had high hopes when I first started out.
lived up to...expectations
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The film has certainly lived up to my expectations .
surpassed...expectations
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He had surpassed all our expectations .
unrealistic expectations
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Some parents have totally unrealistic expectations of teachers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
general
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The Reports were published amidst a general expectation among informed opinion that the Poor Law would indeed be reformed or abolished.
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There seems to be a general expectation that the tiny societies will finally disappear in the next 20 years.
legitimate
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I think that the case is based upon what nowadays would be described as a legitimate expectation of being heard.
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Lord Denning M.R. stated that where there was no legitimate expectation of being heard there was no requirement for a hearing.
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This legitimate expectation was recognized only in public law and not in private law.
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Here the individual might have a legitimate expectation that the licence would be renewed.
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He has probably thus created a legitimate expectation that he will continue to apply this policy.
reasonable
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Sometimes when we project into the future we have a reasonable expectation , based on experience, of what will happen.
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Maybe 5-6 was a reasonable expectation .
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The need would be to show, against reasonable expectation , that the second did not divert attention from the first.
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People have a right to a reasonable expectation of privacy in cellular as in other forms of telephonic conversation.
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A profit of £30-50 a session is a reasonable expectation .
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Thus a reasonable expectation for the strength of a material would be: which could hardly be much simpler.
■ NOUN
life
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Female advantage in life expectation is not universal.
■ VERB
create
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Note how in this case the tremolo creates an expectation of the forcefulness and dynamism which is to follow.
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To offer the best was to set a general standard and to create a wider public expectation .
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They can thereby create patient expectation of the level of demand that will be serviced.
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In Sperber and Wilson's terms, it creates an expectation of optimal relevance.
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He has probably thus created a legitimate expectation that he will continue to apply this policy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arouse interest/expectations etc
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A man doing a handstand in the town centre is likely to arouse interest.
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Kennedy and Wilson had both aroused expectations, which had not been fulfilled.
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This extraordinary and highly convoluted story has aroused interest in many quarters from time to time.
disappoint sb's hopes/expectations/plans
high hopes/expectations
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I had high expectations for this book.
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It is possible to be creative while still having high expectations of pupils.
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Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment.
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Salespeople require goals set for them with maximal clarity and hold high expectations for recognition for their accomplishments.
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There are high hopes for the game around Wearside.
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There is a sense of anticipatory disillusion among those who recall how the high hopes of 1986 were dashed.
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There were a lot of high expectations.
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We had high hopes for television in those early days.
match up to sb's hopes/expectations/ideals etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At least that was the expectation as 8,000 people gathered in a vast, beautiful hall in London last month.
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But what of the expectation of life of some one who has reached the age of forty?
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He had had no expectation of doing more than exasperate, and supply a distraction.
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Maker and wearer share a breathtaking expectation .
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Maybe 5-6 was a reasonable expectation .
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This would indicate that the expectation of impotence in old age can play an important role in actually bringing it about.