Example sentences of "[been] hope that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been hoped that the Budget could boost sales by about 70,000 , but manufacturers are now pinning hopes on an improvement on the traditional registration rush in August . |
| 2 | Although it might have been hoped that local and central government would redirect main programmes to the benefit of the cities , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 3 | It had also been hoped that midfielder Michael Thomas would play this week but the former Arsenal midfielder has suffered a reaction to his Achilles problem and his comeback has been delayed . |
| 4 | It had been hoped that the bespectacled Bunter , legendary consumer of cream buns and pop at Greyfriars School for the last 84 years , would have his own cartoon series on TV . |
| 5 | It had been hoped that Dr Bamford and Dr Wolkind would contribute a chapter for this book but time constraints made this impossible . |
| 6 | It had been hoped that the Americans ' long-delayed decision to recognise the government might have obliged UNITA to co-operate . |
| 7 | It had apparently been hoped that the numbers of long-term patients suffering from dementia would diminish with the rundown of the asylums . |
| 8 | It had been hoped that the removal of exchange rate fluctuations between EC currencies would constitute the first stage toward monetary union , but the widespread acceptance of floating has made this aim more difficult to achieve , although the European Monetary System has had some success in this respect . |
| 9 | It seems also to have been hoped that detailed and embarrassing cross-examination of the complainant as to whether penetration had actually taken place would cease to be necessary with a reform of this kind . |
| 10 | It had been hoped that the centrepiece of the summit would be the initialling of a draft treaty reducing the superpowers ' arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons currently being negotiated at the START talks in Geneva [ see p. 37267 ] . |
| 11 | It had been hoped that an emphatic victory in New South Wales would lay the groundwork for a conservative victory at the next federal election , due by March 1993 . |
| 12 | It had been hoped that three good performances in the so-called US ‘ 93 Cup would give Mr Taylor and his team some much-needed breathing space . |
| 13 | It had been hoped that the station would be reached at high speed by tunnel from east London , but getting to St Pancras from the Channel route would involve a tortuously slow route over a heavily congested suburban line . |
| 14 | Stalin had been hoping that British and American forces would be used to create a ‘ second front ’ on the main continent of Europe and by now he had convinced himself that the United States and Britain were deliberately delaying the creation of the ‘ second front ’ so that the Russian forces would be weakened by allowing the major part of the German forces to continue to oppose them on the eastern front . |
| 15 | He had been hoping that Kirov would not demand the negative of the composite . |
| 16 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
| 17 | Yeah the main difficulty is in is in the time period because it 's it 's quite likely that I mean I 'd we 'd been we 'd been hoping that the target candidate could put in a reasonable amount of personal commitment to the campaign . |
| 18 | Suddenly she realised just how much she 'd been hoping that Jake and Janice were still not married . |
| 19 | Oh , the dear love , thought Leith , having just realised that , heartsick for a sight of Rosemary , he must have been hoping that Rosemary was back and that she might , if asked , come over for a cup of coffee . |