Example sentences of "[pron] be hope [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand you do n't want to get too embroiled in parochial issues if you are hoping to attract national coverage .
2 Development technician Dave said : ‘ At the moment the proposals are very much up in the air but we are hoping to plan mixed weekend trips which both groups would enjoy . ’
3 Erm they were hoping to use agrarian reform to mobilize mass support as well as economic and social change .
4 It is hoped to find sufficient evidence to reconstruct the life-style of the early modern child .
5 The public-sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) was forecast to decline in 1991 to 13 per cent of GDP and to reach 3 per cent by 1993 ( a target which some observers dismissed as optimistic ) , and it was hoped to reduce year-on-year consumer price inflation to 7 per cent by the end of the same year .
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