Example sentences of "hope of [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The human alphabet simply can not cope , and unless you know the sounds already ( in which case there is no point in writing them down ) there is no hope of learning them from these strange strings of letters . |
| 2 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 3 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 4 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 5 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 6 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 7 | Although the case was still open the police had no hope of finding him after all this time . |