Example sentences of "[adj] we [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now all we must wait for is the kettle . |
| 2 | You wait it 'll come in a minute can hear the bloody television , it 's true though , if we did n't have our television on , all we 'd listen to is theirs in n it ? |
| 3 | My experience in Texas and with other large contemporary prison systems leads me to wonder whether in future the best we can hope for is to obtain some kind of a mix of the two , and avoid the worse features of each . |
| 4 | Under natural conditions cattle would be anoestrous at the time , so the best we can hope for is subfertility . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps the best we can hope for is to conduct here a kind of uneasy holding operation until something else happens in another place ’ — but in most other respects , certainly in conclusions and prescription , they diverged to the point of confrontation . |
| 6 | The best we can hope for is rain and that may not be too much to hope for with Wimbledon on the horizon . |
| 7 | ‘ The best we can hope for is to go to Wolves on May 2 in need of one or three points . ’ |
| 8 | The best we could hope for is that she 's had a brainstorm , and I do n't know how often that happens outside of books . |