Example sentences of "[be] to be hope that " in BNC.

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1 It is to be hoped that Hermione Lee 's excellent new book will help to change that , for Cather is one of the most original and inventive of modern writers , a more powerful artist , for instance , than her contemporary Edith Wharton .
2 It is to be hoped that her business is now sufficiently stable to realise the opportunity , for she has clocked up three managing directors in the past few years .
3 WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon .
4 It is to be hoped that Gluck 's judgments on wine are better than his knowledge of English poetry .
5 It is to be hoped that the Guinness trial will show that the UK authorities do know just that .
6 The list could go on , and it may indeed be appropriate to add to or subtract from it , but it is to be hoped that the general point is clear enough — that our first need is to have a very clear level of self-awareness about existing management structures and processes as a precondition for undertaking a review of these elements .
7 It is to be hoped that the new botanical information acquired will soon be published in more accessible journals .
8 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 .
9 It is to be hoped that this is not early warning of the demise of public libraries !
10 It is to be hoped that as this happens , the mass media will switch away from the valuable role of exposing the horrors of the past to the more challenging and difficult one of discussing mental handicap in the context of normal day to day life . ’
11 The roads in this upper part of the valley were designed in medieval times for the occasional passage of horses and carts and have never been brought to modern standards by straightening and widening and it is to be hoped that they never will be .
12 With the tightening of world oil demand which will come in the 1990s and the beginnings of a ‘ catching-up ’ programme of crude price increases , it is to be hoped that measures will be taken in good time to counteract what could be a politically unacceptable and potentially debilitating economic dependence on imported energy , for the US and for the rest of the Western world .
13 It is to be hoped that MAFF will adopt a realistic and progressive attitude to the measure .
14 It is to be hoped that repeated surveys such as the Social Attitudes Survey will be conducted for many years to come in order to allow these important distinctions to be made .
15 At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science .
16 It is to be hoped that recent changes within the SDA ( notably its drift towards self-help , business-orientated projects ) will not allow it to lose sight of wider goals in Scotland , where extensive areas of economic decline and outright poverty can still be identified .
17 It is to be hoped that the reader has now some idea of the problems confronting LDCs .
18 One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do .
19 It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill .
20 It is to be hoped that some of the numerous shales in the Devonian and Carboniferous sections may prove to have been sufficiently ductile to restrain escape over the long timespan involved , despite the degree of deformation to which they have been subjected .
21 It is to be hoped that the interest in these patients , which has led to an impressive research effort and also the establishment of specialized clinical services , will continue despite the major economic strictures which now face the Health Service .
22 Common Terns at present nest on an island in the pit , and it is to be hoped that when disturbance is too great for them they will move to the Local Nature Reserve at Rye Harbour , which includes a gravel pit with suitable islands .
23 In fact what is proposed by Mr Ceravolo in his report to the Parliament is the setting of a timetable for the elimination of lead from petrol and it is likely that this will be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers in June and it is to be hoped that the Council will then call on the Commission to proceed to a new directive on the matter to replace the existing one which determines the 0.15 minimum level .
24 It is to be hoped that in the course of time the word ‘ fear ’ used in the context of the foregoing will be abandoned in favour of the word ‘ foreboding ’ , for the conscience , once properly developed should give warning rather than frighten , and therefore enable the individual to avoid that which could give rise to real fear .
25 Now that Kilwinning has mushroomed from being a small village to having a population of almost 16,500 , it is to be hoped that some of the new residents will take an interest in the town 's historic past and will ensure the continued existence of the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers and the papingo shoot .
26 It is to be hoped that Essex and Kent will soon assist in further reduction ! .
27 It is to be hoped that if a well-proven scientific basis for potency action is established , much of the scepticism towards homoeopathy will disappear .
28 It is to be hoped that as the patient begins to feel better , there will be less need for either smoking or alcohol .
29 It is to be hoped that this will not deter commentators from making their contribution to the debate , particularly against the background of recent corporate scandals over which auditors have been criticised , often unfairly , and against a backcloth of rapid change in the ways of doing business generally .
30 It is to be hoped that schools in the independent sector will recognise how vital these principles are if we are to promote true peace and co-operation in British society .
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