Sentence examples for not being expected from inspiring English sources

But there have been even more surprise winners, medalists whose greatest advantage was not being expected to medal and who, like the Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann, turned that lack of expectation into an indefinable looseness.

The report Social Enterprise Schools: A potential profit-sharing model for the state-funded school system, argued for the introduction of for-profit providers on grounds of a crisis in the number of school places available, and the not-for-profit sector not being expected to have the appetite for the expansion this would require; therefore, profit-making providers must be brought in.

However, realism in this exercise was reduced by AVSAG and the GeoNet "actors" not being expected to participate in the exercise outside normal business hours.

Immediate success should not be expected.

Corden, mind you, could not be expected to come cheap.

Such forcefulness had not been expected from the eunuch.

But China could not be expected to sit idly by.

Voting had not been expected for another two months.

It may not be expected, but it's always appreciated.

(They should not be expected to do so today, either).

Unconventional scores may not be expected to sound conventionally Spanish.