Example sentences of "hope [conj] [adj] [coord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They now hope that Danish or British opposition will scuttle the Maastricht treaty , because they know that the economic austerity required by ‘ convergence ’ will be unpopular — and they , Italy 's least popular politicians , will never be returned to power . |
| 2 | Hopes that private and voluntary agencies , along with the nuclear family , could supplement the welfare state did not apply with equal validity to a society with more dislocation , more one-parent families , a growing divorce rate , and less active involvement by religious and other charitable bodies . |
| 3 | It seems also to have been hoped that detailed and embarrassing cross-examination of the complainant as to whether penetration had actually taken place would cease to be necessary with a reform of this kind . |
| 4 | Although it might have been hoped that local and central government would redirect main programmes to the benefit of the cities , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 5 | Stalin had been hoping that British and American forces would be used to create a ‘ second front ’ on the main continent of Europe and by now he had convinced himself that the United States and Britain were deliberately delaying the creation of the ‘ second front ’ so that the Russian forces would be weakened by allowing the major part of the German forces to continue to oppose them on the eastern front . |