Example sentences of "hope [conj] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two teenagers have chosen to bed down for the night in a freezer as part of their training for an expedition to the Artic Circle , They hope that a good night of shivering in sub-zero temperatures will prepare them for the trip . |
| 2 | Determined to change the conversation , she opened her mouth to make a remark about the surrounding countryside , but he said suddenly , ‘ It 's too much to hope that a beautiful girl like you has had no experience . |
| 3 | It was hoped that a small part of those works could stay in operation , renovating locomotives and rolling stock and that eventually a heritage museum could be set up on the site . |
| 4 | It is hoped that a wide range of other readers in allied services and occupations may also find something of interest in it . |
| 5 | It is hoped that a detailed study of this sort of one country will make its contribution to the general understanding of economic growth , now a topic of growing interest . |
| 6 | It had been hoped that an emphatic victory in New South Wales would lay the groundwork for a conservative victory at the next federal election , due by March 1993 . |
| 7 | The Benelux states were hostile to the suggestion , because they hoped that a geographical expansion of EEC membership , including British participation , would occur before concrete political plans were discussed . |