Example sentences of "hope [that] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James 's attempted flight , however , effectively destroyed any hope that a settlement might be reached which would enable James to preserve his throne . |
| 2 | The House will expect me to apologise again for the remarks that I injudiciously made when I was trying to illustrate a simple point — that , with the private sector providing more rail services in future , I hope that a range of choice will be available to the travelling public in terms of price and time of day , rather like that provided by the airlines and the long-distance coach market . |
| 3 | I hope that a message will go out from my hon. and learned Friend the Minister when he replies for the Government . |
| 4 | I hope that a message can go out that there is a new resolve in the west and that we are determined to ensure that the killing , the destruction and the brutality stop , and that , as a new year dawns in a few days ' time , it dawns with a new sense of hope for the battered , beleaguered people of Croatia . |
| 5 | has come up with three sponsors to ‘ underwrite ’ half the costs of the show ( £200,000 ) Silhouette Eyewear , Vistech Redab property developers , and The Times and hope that a box office success will make up the balance . |
| 6 | They hope that a combination of drugs — including AZT — will prove more effective , impelling mutations of the virus in inconsistent directions . |
| 7 | Iraq 's rulers hope that an autonomy deal will undercut all plans for enclaves , large or small , within their borders . |
| 8 | If it does n't come to the full county council , then I will make sure it does , but I , one would hope that a decision such as that , which is of paramount importance in a , a rural area would be taken by a full county council and not by education . |
| 9 | As for those who already receive High and do n't want another copy , or those ex- Mountain subscribers who just do n't want High , then one can only hope that a refund will be available . |
| 10 | We should hope that a theory of the first sort would help us with questions of the second sort , but we could not , I think , require in advance that this be so . |
| 11 | We can only hope that a combination of international intervention and dawning sanity among the fighters will silence the sound of the guns . |
| 12 | HOPES that a plan to build a jail next to a Merseyside hospital could be scrapped because of government spending cuts , have been dashed . |
| 13 | Poland 's foreign minister , Krzysztof Skubiszewski , hopes that a deadline for final Soviet withdrawal can be fixed soon , and that big combat units will begin leaving this spring . |
| 14 | Everyone hopes that a programme of copying the holdings of the National Sound Archive to a more rugged medium will start soon — and that brings us a new challenge . |
| 15 | Further , the property of token reflexivity , as in the following usage of this , is just a special case of intra-sentential discourse deixis : ( 92 ) This sentence is not true Fillmore ( 1917b : 240 ) hopes that a theory of discourse deixis will resolve the well-known paradoxes associated with sentences like ( 92 ) ( if it 's false , it 's true ; and if it 's true , it 's false ) , and indeed with token reflexivity in general . |
| 16 | Later concerning pedestrians , she hopes that a pedestrian requiring an eight second gap to cross a stream of 600 veh/hr will not be delayed for more than 30 seconds . |
| 17 | Now Mr Ferguson hopes that a victory over Brian Clough 's Nottingham Forest will reassure his side and act as a timely impetus in the championship campaign . |
| 18 | Hopes that a cut in German rates would somehow create an opportunity for UK rates to fall were shortlived yesterday . |
| 19 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 20 | One therefore hopes that an understanding of how black holes create particles will lead to a similar understanding of how the big bang created everything in the universe . |
| 21 | It is hoped that a bond will develop in the future with the ‘ Safer Edinburgh ’ initiative as they are targeting the age group in relation to crime prevention . |
| 22 | ‘ To refine these further by attempting to specify what it is hoped that a Mosotho child should know , feel and have the skills to do as a result of a full Primary education and at each stage during that education . |
| 23 | If he had hoped that a row might spur him on to a direct , hands on approach to murdering Elinor , Henry was disappointed . |
| 24 | A budget was being prepared and it was hoped that a weekend inclusive of all meals would cost in the region of £425 per couple , subject to cost finalisation and price movement in the interim . |
| 25 | It is hoped that a decision to develop these fields will be taken in 1993 . |
| 26 | Ironically , Beveridge actually hoped that a pension which reduced income and gave a higher pension to those who stayed at work , would encourage people to defer retirement : ‘ Making receipt of pension conditional on retirement is not intended to encourage or hasten retirement . |
| 27 | It is hoped that a visit to Hunterston by staff of the Ukraine Station will be arranged early in 1993 . |
| 28 | Britain still hoped that a Commonwealth front could be achieved , with considerable internal control of Empire air routes . |
| 29 | The suggestion made to the Argyll interest was that an order from the Board of Customs should be sent to Wigtown demanding the attendance of these officers in Edinburgh on the day of election , whereby it was hoped that a party of Lord Galloway 's enemies might carry the day . |
| 30 | No sooner than formally constituted , the Standard reported the links would become a great boom to the town , although before January 1907 was out , a Leader article read as follows , ( doubtless written by either Charles Luker or a member of the Club Committee ) — ‘ It is to be hoped that a commencement of the projected new golf links at Henley will not be long delayed . |