Example sentences of "[prep] [be] hoped [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It is to be hoped that future titles will move on from here and handle some of the visionary , imaginative and fantastic possibilities of fiction also . |
3 | But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam . |
4 | Some failures are due to ischaemia , sepsis , and fistulas in the arly period after operation and it is to be hoped that these complications will become less with further experience . |
5 | It is to be hoped that later publications in this new series will be fuller , with more detailed commentary . |
6 | It is to be hoped that most members of the Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders are aware of this fact . |
7 | 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 . |