Example sentences of "[adv] hope for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when you holiday in Britain you can wish for good weather and only hope for the best . |
| 2 | One would obviously hope for a linear dependence of the A-measure on area . |
| 3 | Now Rebecca 's family can only hope for a suitable kidney from an accident victim . |
| 4 | But it was probably too late to persuade Bigwig to be gentle : he could only hope for the best . |
| 5 | Today it was to be local aerobatics ; the war in Europe may have ended , but he was eagerly hoping for a posting to the Pacific Theatre . |
| 6 | Like brownies , they prefer to work during daylight hours and snooze in a warm spot by the hearth during the day , only hoping for a bowl of milk as payment for their labours . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , encyclopaedias are very expensive to compile and publish so one can not hope for a new edition every year and the information in them is thus often very dated . |
| 8 | Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife . |
| 9 | For I can not hope for a reference from Lady Merchiston , and I am afraid that … ’ |
| 10 | He does n't just hope for the best in other people — he genuinely believes in it . |
| 11 | Well we will just hope for the best , he 's not going up there so that 's one less . |
| 12 | Finally hopes for a dramatic improvement in trade with Commonwealth members were not realized . |
| 13 | I 'm not hoping for a shell-casing , you know , but if he 'd just get a fucking nose-bleed or something , I 'd be a happy man . ’ |
| 14 | By late November , in a mood not far from suicidal , he was in London once more , desperately hoping for a win in the Irish Lottery ; but when that last hope failed , he used the only means he could find of acting decisively . |
| 15 | The former Manchester United and Everton star joins UTV 's studio team for the big clash from Lansdowne Road , desperately hoping for a Northern Ireland win . |
| 16 | Manager Jim McCorry , who twice played against Fermanagh in the championship , is desperately hoping for a prolonged run to compensate for a disappointing and dismal league campaign . |
| 17 | As the fiery blush mounted her cheeks , she shook his hand briefly , desperately hoping for a miracle . |
| 18 | I did not really know what to expect away from the National Health Service and my mum , and so , armed with a small library of books and the good wishes of a Jamaican midwife at Homerton hospital , I just hoped for the best . |
| 19 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
| 20 | ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come . |
| 21 | This is not an amalgamation for its own sake , it is not an amalgamation to manage a continuing and more comfortable decline , it 's not bolting together two super unions into one mega union and just hoping for the best . |
| 22 | Between January 1940 and June 1941 he broadcast no fewer than nine major speeches , demonstrating his unshakeable confidence , strengthening morale , and giving further hope for an early end to the war . |
| 23 | Mr Deaves still hopes for a settlement from his firm , which sacked him for allegedly taking an extra £387,000 pay — which he denies . |
| 24 | Despite what he privately calls Russian ‘ poker-playing ’ over a united Germany 's relationship with NATO and the Atlantic alliance , Mr Kohl still hopes for an accord in the ‘ two-plus-four ’ talks by the autumn . |
| 25 | In 1960 EFTA still hoped for a multilateral solution , within the ambit of the OECD , to the economic differences between the two organisations . |
| 26 | He had been to Buckingham Palace for a Privy Council , and he was able to inform Asquith that the King still hoped for a solution without a change of Prime Minister . |
| 27 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 28 | Margaret always hoped for a career in University . |
| 29 | The United States was similarly dismayed , for it still hoped for a Labour electoral victory and an eventual political settlement with Jordan . |
| 30 | He still hoped for a settlement , but each time he sent a communication to Bidault it was unaccountably held up by d'Argenlieu . |