Example sentences of "hope of [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will offer package programmes at minimal cost , in the hope of recovering their outlay and , most importantly , providing an inducement for a sponsor to put up £6 million for world-wide exposure . |
| 2 | While France remained in Syria any hope of recovering it was pointless . |
| 3 | Now supposing some family here had a store of such good gold pieces at the end , when the Welsh attack was threatening , they might very well bury it for safety , in the hope of recovering it later . |
| 4 | Unemployed people are given training opportunities in the hope of helping them find work . |
| 5 | Tree-nesting species , if they are being approached by a predator , have little hope of concealing their nests . |
| 6 | He too is a man who goes out of his way to twist people 's tails in the hope of provoking them when he thinks their inactivity is impermissible . |
| 7 | In any event , and this is the real answer , Bismarck had not yet given up hope of bringing his scheme to a successful conclusion and even though it seemed difficult to envisage just how this could be done , he waited for his moment . |
| 8 | After Dan Salmon 's funeral , Charlie tried to read the Daily Chronicle every morning in the hope of discovering what the second battalion , Royal Fusiliers , were up to and where his father might be . |
| 9 | The human alphabet simply can not cope , and unless you know the sounds already ( in which case there is no point in writing them down ) there is no hope of learning them from these strange strings of letters . |
| 10 | They 'll be stopping motorists in the hope of jogging their memories about the events of seven days ago . |
| 11 | James himself , watching from the shore with the rest of his ‘ invasion committee ’ , could not restrain his admiration as he watched his last hope of regaining his throne go up in smoke . |
| 12 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 13 | Sadly , she never carries cash , so any hope of seeing her choose something unusually revolting for daughter-in-law Fergie soon faded . |
| 14 | Mass unemployment has led to an exclusion from sharing in the country 's prosperity , and thereby in the hope of seeing one 's economic position improve , for a significant group of the population . |
| 15 | It seemed to Ruth , what her aunt had long suspected , that to part with loved ones while they are still living , with never a hope of seeing them again , was worse than losing them by death . |
| 16 | You go anywhere there is anything horsy happening in the hope of seeing them . |
| 17 | ‘ Hundreds [ of shareholders ] have for years maintained guarantees at banks ’ , continued the article , ‘ and thousands have helped to create clubs by taking shares without hope of seeing their money back or any return on it . ’ |
| 18 | He had n't a hope of seeing us . ’ |
| 19 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 20 | If they want to settle out of court , then it has got to be a really substantial settlement to satisfy these people because er those that have already died , er they entered into the litigation in the hope of seeing it through and making sure that , er if anything did happen to them , their wives and families would be catered for and would be er financially settled . |
| 21 | The flats face Carntyne dog track , and I gaze out of the window at the greyhounds as they sprint after the electric hare , then , late in the afternoon , transfer my attention to the road , in the hope of seeing my father appear again with sweeties , and notebooks for me to draw in . |
| 22 | No doubt fans will flock to that one as well in the hope of seeing who can force Eubank to produce his best . |
| 23 | Tigg deserts him to start trading in fraud on his own account , and Slyme disappears from the story until he reappears as a police officer ( having taken to working for his living in the hope of shaming his rich uncle ) , to arrest Jonas Chuzzlewit for murder . |
| 24 | In the meantime I suspect that the Rugby Union will soon have to acknowledge that they are not nearly far enough down the road with their new registration legislation to have a hope of implementing it on May 1 . |
| 25 | Henry sent envoy after envoy to Richard in the hope of calling him back to his side , but not even when he used an ambassador as distinguished as the Archbishop of Canterbury was his son to be persuaded . |
| 26 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |
| 27 | Weeping became a self-humiliation , an acknowledgement of one 's unworthiness before the god , used only to appeal to Yahweh in the hope of influencing His decisions . |
| 28 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 29 | He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners . |
| 30 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |