Example sentences of "to [be] hope [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 2 | These management statistics are going to have an increasingly important rôle in determining university funding and spending in the coming years , and it is to be hoped that figures for all disciplines will be available in future . |
| 3 | It is to be hoped that teachers respond to the positive utterances of David Hargreaves and Keith Evans ( director of education for Clwyd ) and continue curriculum innovations within the confines of the national curriculum . |
| 4 | It is … to be hoped that Oxford will tackle the job ( of a new edition of OED ) and that the result will include a printed version of an enlarged OED . ’ |
| 5 | It is to be hoped that Hermione Lee 's excellent new book will help to change that , for Cather is one of the most original and inventive of modern writers , a more powerful artist , for instance , than her contemporary Edith Wharton . |
| 6 | It is to be hoped that Essex and Kent will soon assist in further reduction ! . |
| 7 | On this occasion it was to be hoped that humiliation and hurt pride had been assuaged by a new pair of shoes and a many-stranded jet necklace — like early travellers taking presents to the natives , Sophia felt . |
| 8 | With the tightening of world oil demand which will come in the 1990s and the beginnings of a ‘ catching-up ’ programme of crude price increases , it is to be hoped that measures will be taken in good time to counteract what could be a politically unacceptable and potentially debilitating economic dependence on imported energy , for the US and for the rest of the Western world . |
| 9 | In addition it was to be hoped that Max could come up with some fairly definite cause of death ; and it was even possible ( if only just ) that the surgeon might throw caution to the wind for once and volunteer a tentative approximation of the time it had actually happened . |
| 10 | It was to be hoped that Joanna did n't let out details of their various clients and the pet shop . |
| 11 | It is to be hoped that Gluck 's judgments on wine are better than his knowledge of English poetry . |
| 12 | It is to be hoped that data-base technology can be developed quickly enough to meet the imminent requirements for data management in very large hyper-bases . |
| 13 | It is to be hoped that data become available to permit this type of forecast for the whole of HE . |
| 14 | It is to be hoped that MAFF will adopt a realistic and progressive attitude to the measure . |
| 15 | New legislation is ‘ on the stocks ’ and it is to be hoped that politicians will take note of the example of Gothenburg , Emissionsteknik 's home city , where all the buses have recently been equipped with exhaust catalysts . |
| 16 | It is to be hoped that pupils will acquire a sensitivity towards those who have differing beliefs and develop an understanding of those beliefs , while at the same time becoming more aware of their own value and place within society . |
| 17 | It is to be hoped that schools in the independent sector will recognise how vital these principles are if we are to promote true peace and co-operation in British society . |
| 18 | It was to be hoped that Davout would be reasonable over the question of expenses . |
| 19 | It is to be hoped that NAB 's more open approach will enable it to win consent from the public sector institutions for difficult and unpalatable decisions , though clearly some of its deliberations , concerning the possible closing of institutions for example , will have to be conducted in private . |