Example sentences of "can [adv] hope that " in BNC.
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| 1 | While over 2,300 people wait on death rows countrywide to see if they will die or not , we can only hope that the US comes to its senses soon . |
| 2 | I can only hope that the bursar now inhabits a wholly healthy Oxford . |
| 3 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 4 | We can only hope that the future will see technological advance : perhaps overhead power lines will carry DC in preference to AC to the extent that converters are used to generate AC domestically or industrially . |
| 5 | Dagenham 's employees can only hope that Ford does not resurrect the phrase in the 1990s . |
| 6 | After that we can only hope that it goes in our favour because we know it wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 7 | We can only hope that the message was garbled in transmission , or possibly in translation from the Italian — a much more difficult language than many seem prepared to believe . |
| 8 | The adviser can only hope that if the client was put at her ease while at the bureau then she may come back for further help when that issue could be picked up for suitable referral . |
| 9 | I can only hope that we gave her sufficient help and support when the problems came along . |
| 10 | We can only hope that the current problems will be resolved . |
| 11 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 12 | These knobbly penises were also supposed to add excitement to love making — we can only hope that their ladies appreciated the gesture . |
| 13 | We can only hope that their soon to be announced UK distributor is as helpful in sorting out these little problems . |
| 14 | We can only hope that a combination of international intervention and dawning sanity among the fighters will silence the sound of the guns . |
| 15 | I can only hope that his kind of electioneering cynicism will fail abysmally and by the time National Music Day comes round next year , Tim Renton will have left office too . |
| 16 | ‘ We can only hope that the courts will deal very seriously with attacks on police officers . ’ |
| 17 | One can only hope that Charles Titford had chosen a wife for her lasting qualities , and was not ‘ seduced and betrayed ’ by a daub of lipstick and a set of false teeth ; his marriage lasted — as , in a sense , marriages had to — and it bore fruit . |
| 18 | Their immediate neighbours were Joshua Burn , a grocer , at no. 6 , and James Bradnam , butcher , at no. 5 ; one can only hope that Mr. Bradnam kept his slaughterhouse at a decent distance from his retail premises — the very special aromas of a butcher 's and a grocer 's shop must have been enough to discourage many a potential guest at Miscellaneous Repos , without the sound of dying cries from butchered beasts . |
| 19 | As for those who already receive High and do n't want another copy , or those ex- Mountain subscribers who just do n't want High , then one can only hope that a refund will be available . |
| 20 | To those who did agree to sell , but now find their acceptance forms are being returned to them , I can only hope that you are not too disappointed at being involuntarily back on the winning side ! |
| 21 | One can only hope that we , as the panda 's worst enemy , can somehow right our wrongs and have finally learnt how much we have to lose . |
| 22 | Now we can only hope that things are resolved quickly enough for the developments to be finished in time for the 1994 Open . ’ |
| 23 | The signification is private to the user , and he can only hope that resemblances in his own experience have their counterpart in the experience of others , so that they can attach a meaning of their own to what he says . |
| 24 | One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive . |
| 25 | Those who remained can only hope that Mr Serrano , while snuffing out democracy , will at least control the soldiers . |
| 26 | But if it can be proven that overfishing of sand-eel is the principal cause of the problem , we can only hope that remedial action can be taken before it is too late for our important sea-bird colonies to recover . |
| 27 | Moreover , by choosing an option that has been shown to be the best in terms of quality of life days gained general practitioners would be more certain that they were acting with beneficence ; at present , using simply their ‘ unaided intuitive judgment ’ to make such decisions , they can only hope that this is the case . |
| 28 | One can only hope that the £2 million restructured county ground at Bristol , where the old Victorian orphanages can give such a depressing aura to the ambience , will bring a corresponding resurgence in the fortunes of the team . |
| 29 | The defended sites in Britain have to be studied in detail against this development and I can only hope that this short contribution may help to inspire more thought and action along these lines of research . |
| 30 | We can only hope that since the incident he has had some serious therapy , both on his flying and on his mental state . |