Example sentences of "[adv] hope for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when you holiday in Britain you can wish for good weather and only hope for the best . |
| 2 | One would obviously hope for a linear dependence of the A-measure on area . |
| 3 | Now Rebecca 's family can only hope for a suitable kidney from an accident victim . |
| 4 | But it was probably too late to persuade Bigwig to be gentle : he could only hope for the best . |
| 5 | He does n't just hope for the best in other people — he genuinely believes in it . |
| 6 | Well we will just hope for the best , he 's not going up there so that 's one less . |
| 7 | Finally hopes for a dramatic improvement in trade with Commonwealth members were not realized . |
| 8 | Manager Jim McCorry , who twice played against Fermanagh in the championship , is desperately hoping for a prolonged run to compensate for a disappointing and dismal league campaign . |
| 9 | I did not really know what to expect away from the National Health Service and my mum , and so , armed with a small library of books and the good wishes of a Jamaican midwife at Homerton hospital , I just hoped for the best . |
| 10 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
| 11 | ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come . |
| 12 | This is not an amalgamation for its own sake , it is not an amalgamation to manage a continuing and more comfortable decline , it 's not bolting together two super unions into one mega union and just hoping for the best . |
| 13 | Between January 1940 and June 1941 he broadcast no fewer than nine major speeches , demonstrating his unshakeable confidence , strengthening morale , and giving further hope for an early end to the war . |
| 14 | In 1960 EFTA still hoped for a multilateral solution , within the ambit of the OECD , to the economic differences between the two organisations . |
| 15 | The United States was similarly dismayed , for it still hoped for a Labour electoral victory and an eventual political settlement with Jordan . |
| 16 | They had both hoped for a classic siege manoeuvre : a complete blockade of supplies , followed when the city was weak by an assault over ditches infilled by themselves , and preceded by feints , night attacks and heavy bombardment . |
| 17 | After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies . |
| 18 | The US , by far the world 's wealthiest and most powerful state , also hoped for a stable , expanding world economy where freer trade would prevent a return to the depression and unemployment which had led to militant nationalism in the 1930s . |
| 19 | The affair had dominated relations between the two countries , and Rocard now hoped for a fresh start , although Bolger noted that they would have to " agree to differ " over French nuclear policy . |
| 20 | You can address yourself to a man , and at least hope for a quick ear and an open heart ! |
| 21 | If the chosen section has the greatest possible diversity and abundance of rapidly evolving fossils , we can then hope for the greatest possible number of different means for correlation . |
| 22 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
| 23 | Before the election many UN officials had privately hoped for a close result . |
| 24 | While ultimately hoping for a unified effort which reaches the smaller operator , he welcomes the global approach of the WTTERC — the sheer volume of the business produces , he says , enormous opportunity for environmental gain . |
| 25 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 26 | The partisans too hoped for a quick end . |