Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be hope [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bateson announced that next month 's extraordinary general meeting of the League , where he was hoping to persuade club chairmen to ‘ drop the drop ’ , is to be called off . |
| 2 | Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study . |
| 3 | This is n't true , the logging practices were atrocious , and even tribal burial grounds have been uprooted by the loggers , and the number of deaths last year , in 1989 , logging deaths was 94 , because they 're sending loggers up even steep slopes to get the timber than they would normally , so there 's actually a lot of bad practice going on , so we 're hoping to fund Friends of the Earth , Malaysia in their environmental programme to help the indigenous people defend themselves , and therefore the forest better . |
| 4 | Skim-reading is fine if you are hoping only to get the ‘ gist ’ rather than the finer points of a piece , but dangerous if you are hoping to absorb information , or need to consider all sides of an argument . |
| 5 | It might be great to have something in Torquay if you 're hoping to draw visitors from the southwest , but not if you 're trying to pull a big public audience from Tyneside . |
| 6 | ‘ Makes sense , ’ said the Squat , ‘ if he was hoping to use Stalinvast as a playground for his bally hydra . ’ |