Example sentences of "[prep] be hope that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to be hoped that capitalist progress would eventually bring the labourers nearer to this maximum , and regrettable ( though not inconvenient for keeping wages down ) that so many were still so far below it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is to be hoped that future research into the nature of language processing will continue to relate findings about the performance of both skilled and impaired language users on the wide range of tasks which go together to make up out ability to acquire and use language — for it is only by attempting to do so that it will ultimately be possible for psychologists to develop a comprehensive model of language processing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The runs have captured the imagination of the enthusiasts and it is to be hoped that British Rail will allow these trains to run in 1992 . |