Example sentences of "[noun] hope for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It returned to the belly of the beast and trawled the fag-strewn floors of Swindon 's betting shops hoping for a scandalous morsel . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough hope for a good crowd despite it being the third home game of the week . |
| 3 | If Shearson hope for a passive investor , it is not in Perelman 's make up , ’ says Perrin Long , a securities analyst at Lipper Analytical . |
| 4 | The returning emigres hope for a clean sweep but this has not happened anywhere in Eastern Europe where the price of reconciliation has always been a measure of compromise . |
| 5 | They and other committed Europeans like Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl hoped for a massive endorsement to put all their plans firmly back on track . |
| 6 | The exhibition runs until the middle of August , with Desmond hoping for a better reception than last time , when his work was slated by the critics . |
| 7 | According to the foreign journalists camped out at the Intercontinental Hotel for weeks hoping for a simple soundbite from El Presidente , he was not seeing anyone . |
| 8 | Richards hopes for a longer liaison with his manager than the three-and-a-half-year deal just signed by Francis . |
| 9 | DON KING last night put a black cloud over the hopes of Lennox Lewis and other heavyweights hoping for a long reign as world champion , by claiming that Mike Tyson will be out of jail early next year . |
| 10 | Theoretically his presidency must end in 1852 , but it was already evident that the Prince hoped for a second term of office , to which end he began to organize a campaign to drum up sufficient popular support for this to become possible . |
| 11 | I picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals hoping for a quiet hour or two by the river while they were manoeuvring . |
| 12 | James hopes for a double celebration today — an England call-up and his first clean sheet for Liverpool in tonight 's clash with Southampton at Anfield . |
| 13 | Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous . |