Example sentences of "[adv] hope [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outsiders could not hope to participate in the learned debates on comparative anatomy at the great museums , but field naturalists relied on local amateurs for specimens and surveys , thus ensuring a much greater degree of interaction . |
| 2 | Sadly , even their combined efforts can not hope to compensate for the many jobs lost . |
| 3 | A teacher can not hope to function as a normal communicative support system in most classroom interaction since it is a one-to-many rather than a one-to-one situation . |
| 4 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 5 | Coventry are just hoping to play in the top flight next season . |
| 6 | Premier Boris Yeltsin has announced that he still hopes to come to an amicable agreement with the Imperial representative and the board of GenTech . |
| 7 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 1 5 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 8 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 15 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 9 | It just proves that you ca n't hope to turn in a worthy performance if you have n't done sufficient preparation . ’ |
| 10 | A counter-balance for Satan can not be found for Milton has gone too far in his wonderful description and characterisation so that even his portrayal of God can not even hope to rise to the same level . |
| 11 | But she could never hope to participate to the same degree in his excitement and his passion . |
| 12 | Short of building merchant ships for free , British Shipbuilders [ this was before privatization ] can never hope to compete with the merciless competition presented by the South Koreans and the Japanese . |