1.   A web site featuring video of recent games, updated statistics and biographical information indicated how great expectations were becoming.

2.   David Carr expects to be the first college draftee in Texans history, and all indications are his expectations soon will become reality.

3.   Inflationary expectations can become self-fulfilling prophecies.

4.   Many times that happens, when the expectations become so great you can never quite live up to them.

5.   So expertly do Holland, camera boss Paul Maibaum and film editor Ned Bastille build the suspense that expectations become impossibly high for the arrival of the monsters.

6.   That was when the expectations that everybody else had pinned on him became his own.

7.   The expectations have become incredible.

8.   Their expectations may become the burden of George E. Pataki, who takes office Sunday after campaigning for governor so effectively on the splendidly nebulous promise of change.

9.   Those expectations became reality.

10.   We are working extremely hard to insure that our expectations become a reality.