Example sentences of "[be] hope [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 2 | Gayle said : ‘ We 've hired rooms in a real castle and we 're hoping for snow . ’ |
| 3 | this season we 'll be cheering louder than ever for our three teams … in the new first division we 've got Oxford United … they 've new owners and new heart after escaping relegation … we 've first division football at the County ground as well … where style and skill have always been swindon town 's hallmarks … this time around they 're hoping for strength too … in division three Hereford United have been rebuilding … they 're going continental with a player-coach instead of a manager … so for the best season ticket sit down for Central South … . |
| 4 | We 're hoping against hope that she 's gone off with a friend or a boyfriend and will get in touch with her parents . |
| 5 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 6 | A report in Nezavisimaya gazeta of April 21 noted that Dudayev appeared to be hoping for support and recognition from the Islamic countries , rather than from the West , which recently had been heavily criticized in his speeches . |
| 7 | Considerations of illustrations aside , the reader will be hoping for enlightenment from the text . |
| 8 | ( They were hoping for Tom O'Connor . ) |
| 9 | They were hoping against hope we 'd attack them . ’ |
| 10 | The Americans are hoping for $1.3 billion from the Japanese , but there is no assurance that this will ever appear . |
| 11 | We are hoping for romance and adventure , and certainly , starving is going to do wonders for my weight . |
| 12 | peasants are hoping for restoration , or he 's |
| 13 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
| 14 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 15 | Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ? |
| 16 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 17 | In a totally uncharacteristic and confused way , she had been hoping against hope that Mrs Bennett would settle down in Hillmarden and come to terms with what she had called ‘ all them dark months ’ . |
| 18 | I 've been hoping against hope you two would get together ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But I am hoping with normality returning , we might see a falling of these figures . ’ |
| 20 | Timed to keep in step with commemorations of wartime anniversaries , it is hoped to tie-in flying activities with each of the events throughout the year . |
| 21 | The best postcards will be exhibited on a national tour , to be launched , it is hoped by Parliament next Spring . |
| 22 | The company is hoping for grant aid from the Scottish Sports Council . |
| 23 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 24 | One former Soviet republic is hoping for market reform , minus the Russian example of ‘ shock therapy ’ . |
| 25 | He is hoping to rope in Madonna to record her next album there . |
| 26 | Now the European Community is hoping to phase out the green pound by 1992 , along with the M C A's . |
| 27 | Well it seems like that 's hoping for pie in the sky , though , because there 's first of all not enough money , and I do n't think that teachers are that good at well talking about their own emotions , and I asked the Oxfordshire County Council Education Department to send someone along to this programme , and they said ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's no-one to send ’ . |
| 28 | He 's hoping for emergency cash for building work and the chance to keep all his students at school . |
| 29 | Meanwhile on the Severn , the skipper of the narrowboat Emma Louise was hoping for success too : |