Example sentences of "it was hope " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough council yesterday announced it was hoping to donate £3,000 towards the purchase of computer equipment for the project . |
| 3 | In response to reports that South Korea was seeking Beijing 's role as a mediator , China said yesterday it was hoping ‘ all the parties concerned ’ would resolve the dispute . |
| 4 | It was hoped that there might be one or more lawyers in post in the relatively near future . |
| 5 | It was hoped that this would result in better co-operation from local administrators and party members in the supply of labour and fuel , etc . |
| 6 | It was hoped that soon the lines to the Don basin and Nizhnii Novgorod would be electrified , followed quickly by the whole of the Siberian network . |
| 7 | It was clearly proposed not as a permanent arrangement , but as a temporary measure of co-operation between different individuals , who , it was hoped , would be supported by their parties . |
| 8 | The Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday it was hoped that next week would see the first dairy farms released from the restriction orders . |
| 9 | It was hoped that sale of the stake would benefit the consortium . |
| 10 | This , it was hoped , would reassure the financial markets that fine-tuning , and the inflationary bias that went with it , was out , shunned , verboten , dead . |
| 11 | At first it was hoped that the study could be ready this spring . |
| 12 | Family religion forged bonds which , it was hoped , would hold firm through the valley of death . |
| 13 | It was hoped to raise £20,000 by the sale of the first two forests ‘ to supply a necessary service on the return of the fleet ’ from the expedition against the island of Rhé . |
| 14 | But Finch proceeded against the principal offenders , from whom it was hoped that substantial sums could be extracted , ‘ by way of a Speciall Indictment ’ . |
| 15 | It was hoped to use the Crown allotment in Exmoor Forest for this purpose , but after partition the Commissioners decided that it would not in fact be suitable , and in 1818 it was sold for £50,000 to a Mr Knight , who enclosed it . |
| 16 | The island itself — its people and their occupations , its geology , fauna and flora , its architecture — would , it was hoped by the parents , widen horizons that a too intense dedication to music might narrow . |
| 17 | It was hoped that his speech would make the lead item on the BBC 's Nine O'Clock News . |
| 18 | It was hoped that transport would provide the one really ‘ big idea ’ for the Tory election manifesto in the form of the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 19 | A spokeswoman for the Blackpool Pleasure Beach said it was hoped the revitalised Laughing Man would be restored to his glass cabinet within a fortnight . |
| 20 | By replacing one of the sulphur atoms in an ring by RC , it was hoped to retain the same electronic properties of and , by changing the substituent R , a systematic study of the physical and chemical properties of this type of heterocycle could be done . |
| 21 | It was hoped to increase awareness of the library and its services and to increase the number of users . |
| 22 | These vessels were fitted with a ‘ wet chamber ’ through which a diver could leave the submarine and , it was hoped , make an underwater inspection of the Russian ships in the harbour . |
| 23 | Because of the pressure on Drigg this was the most urgent requirement , and it was hoped that it would attract less opposition than the Billingham mine . |
| 24 | To the credit of both Hortense and Le Bas , it was agreed that Louis-Napoleon should be enrolled in the High School at Augsburg , a move which it was hoped would not only remove a tendency to idleness and day-dreaming but would also give him a chance to make friends with other boys of his own age . |
| 25 | Although the Emperor had married for love it was expected that the union would , as soon as possible , produce a child which would , it was hoped , be male . |
| 26 | Napoleon III 's ministers had worked hard to bring about the visit — not merely because it was in support of the Emperor 's policy but also , it was hoped , to distract him from his privately announced intention of himself going to the Crimea . |
| 27 | In this way the private benefits of the small family norm , it was hoped , would be adopted . |
| 28 | For Russia the prize was to command railway routes connecting , it was hoped , Calais to Calcutta or Amsterdam to the Amur . |
| 29 | These drugs were intended to have specific effects and on the whole it was hoped that they would have as few other effects as possible . |
| 30 | From what we know of primitive races it is highly probable that the incentive for producing these paintings was magical , the object being to fix in paint on the wall or ceiling of a cave an event — usually the slaying of an animal — which it was hoped would be effected in the future elsewhere . |