Example sentences of "it be hope [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Court adjourned the matter until Thursday , ‘ but it is hoped by both parties that by then the current uncertainty and speculation concerning the future of Manchester will have been resolved ’ .
2 During the spring and summer of this year the Chairman and members of the committee have invited presentations from a wide range of suppliers of financial services products and it is hoped in due course to publish both recommendations as to the type of financial services products members of the Bar should consider taking up and details of advantageous group insurance schemes .
3 The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit .
4 In the seventeenth century a law was brought in which forbade the burial of the dead in any but woollen shrouds , because it was hoped by this decree to support the failing woollen trade of the Dales .
5 It was hoped in this way to reduce the high refusal rate which is a hazard in sociolinguistic surveys , and indeed the method seemed in general to be successful in this respect ; altogether , out of 40 addresses visited , only 8 refusals were recorded .
6 In the discussions of the mid-1970s it was hoped in some institutions that this step might be the forerunner of others involving greater delegation of powers .
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