Example sentences of "could be hope for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , in the light of the Americans ' deep-seated anti-colonialism , neutrality was the most that could be hoped for in the problems that would face Britain in converting her Empire into the Commonwealth at a prudent and realistic pace . |
| 2 | The birth of the Prince Imperial had been so difficult — the Empress had been in labour for 18 hours — that no further child could be hoped for . |
| 3 | He began to ask me what the realities were of his medical situation and his prognosis — what could be hoped for in the best of circumstances . |
| 4 | He hated prisons , even the so-called modern set-ups where the relations between prisoner and prison-officer were the best that could be hoped for , and violence was minimal . |
| 5 | The differences between Reich and Freud are concerned not so much with the desirability of sexual activity in youth so as to avoid later sexual disturbances , and therefore the need for change in the morality of that period , as with the consequences which could be hoped for as a result . |
| 6 | Law had indeed brought Asquith to the point of conceding all that could be hoped for from Ulster 's resistance , but he was unable to seize the fruits . |
| 7 | In the years of sharp pruning of public-sector expenditure , and at a time when a comprehensive housing programme embracing improvement , clearance , redevelopment and new building lay beyond the grasp of the Ministry of Health , the most that could be hoped for in the 1920s was the amelioration of a small number of the worst houses . |