Example sentences of "hope of [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The human alphabet simply can not cope , and unless you know the sounds already ( in which case there is no point in writing them down ) there is no hope of learning them from these strange strings of letters . |
| 2 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 3 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 4 | In the meantime I suspect that the Rugby Union will soon have to acknowledge that they are not nearly far enough down the road with their new registration legislation to have a hope of implementing it on May 1 . |
| 5 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |
| 6 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 7 | Just turned 21 , Jeanne had sacrificed any hope of fulfilling herself as an artist to Modigliani . |
| 8 | She therefore proposed that my father should pretend to fall in love with her difficult and very homesick Italian friend so that it would be clear to her parents that there was no hope of getting him for Fiona . ’ |
| 9 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 10 | Our trade expert , John Coates , hazards that the trade might only be willing to pay £12,500 in the hope of retailing it for £15,500 . |
| 11 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 12 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 13 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 14 | ‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] . |
| 15 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 16 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 17 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 18 | It did not occur to him that it was following the track of a mole , in the hope of killing it with a blow of its beak and then pulling it out of its shallow run . |
| 19 | I 've already telephoned the Consulate , ’ he added , in the hope of soothing her with a half-truth . |
| 20 | Although the case was still open the police had no hope of finding him after all this time . |
| 21 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 22 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 23 | But if she had to start looking for the owner of the Bentley who , she guessed , was probably somewhere in the hotel , she did n't have a hope of making it in time . |
| 24 | She only hoped he was n't titivating himself , slicking his hair and freshening his breath in the hope of talking her into bed . |
| 25 | ‘ In the hope of following them to the base , since we do n't know where the land entrance is — I only saw the inlet that allows ships in . ’ |
| 26 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 27 | So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal . |
| 28 | But victory will see them as serious threats to England 's hopes of making it to the finals in 1994 and Gullit may well take Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti 's offer to join Gazza . |