Example sentences of "hope of [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 2 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 3 | Just turned 21 , Jeanne had sacrificed any hope of fulfilling herself as an artist to Modigliani . |
| 4 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 5 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 6 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 7 | It did not occur to him that it was following the track of a mole , in the hope of killing it with a blow of its beak and then pulling it out of its shallow run . |
| 8 | I 've already telephoned the Consulate , ’ he added , in the hope of soothing her with a half-truth . |
| 9 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 10 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 11 | ‘ In the hope of following them to the base , since we do n't know where the land entrance is — I only saw the inlet that allows ships in . ’ |
| 12 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |