Example sentences of "hope of [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |