Example sentences of "[adv] hope for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only hope for all concerned with the pub estate that Threshold Inns are allowed the chance to prove themselves and become a legend in pub retailing . |
| 2 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 3 | In London representatives of the Belgian , Dutch and Norwegian governments-in-exile all hoped for British leadership of a post-war alliance system , and many British officials and ministers came to believe that a ‘ western bloc ’ could both control Germany in future and bolster British standing in the world vis-à-vis America and Russia . |
| 4 | ‘ You surely can not hope for better ? ’ |
| 5 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 6 | But with a Tory majority of just over 1400 in the last election , it 's now one of the Liberal Democrats best hopes for 9th April . |
| 7 | He still hopes for another opportunity at Test level . |
| 8 | While still hoping for general public success , he anticipated some hostility , especially to the " Wagnerian " end of the book , but about the book 's merits and its personal necessity he felt no doubts at all . |
| 9 | Looking ahead , the government is still hoping for continuing growth of 4% a year . |
| 10 | Festival organisers also hope for high standard of competition in a new music competition to be held for the first time this year . |
| 11 | Festival organisers also hope for high standard of music in a competition to be held for the first time . |
| 12 | six gold medals in seventy years is Britain 's record at the winter olympics … let's hope our luck changes in France … and let's also hope for some goals from our three central south sides tomorrow … |
| 13 | Also hoped for next year is an agreement with IBM for which Fernhart is hoping to act as a VAR : it has distributed ICL Unix boxes since 1985 . |
| 14 | Given its dual-operating system strategy , Sequent is also hoping for increased Unix-to-NT interoperability , but says if the Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technologies now under development come to fruition , then it should be able to produce executable software for Unix and NT . |
| 15 | She ate it quickly and then , clearly hoping for more sugar , she followed Lord Pabham out of the room . |
| 16 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 17 | but were they really hoping for twenty four people ? |
| 18 | One surely could n't hope for greater understanding . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We could n't hope for more . |
| 20 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 21 | I secretly hoped for twenty-one . |