Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] hope to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foucault argues that just as there can be no general theory of history , but only particular answers to particular questions which make individual practices intelligible , so the intellectual can best hope to be specific rather than universal ( universal in the sense of proposing transcendent values , systems , totalities , narratives or teleologies ) . |
| 2 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 3 | The holder of three scientific degrees — from Oxford , UCLA and MIT , all summa cum laude — in electrical engineering and electronics , Denholm was as close to being an electronics wizard as any man could ever hope to be . |
| 4 | He was as certain of his audience as any man could ever hope to be . |
| 5 | What has been said above about sampling can only hope to be the very lightest of scratches on the surface of what is a vast subject in itself . |