Example sentences of "hope [prep] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best that employers can usually hope for is to reach agreement with some of those affected . |
| 2 | The consortium leaders say the best they can hope for is getting back half their money but many of the miners look set to reject the offer . |
| 3 | ‘ The best we can hope for is to go to Wolves on May 2 in need of one or three points . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | If he is , maybe the best Howard Wilkinson can hope for is to field someone who at least knows where Durrant is . |
| 6 | In the absence of a concrete policy towards the pound , the best that the Government can hope for is to ride out the crisis until the next set of trade figures , due on 24 October . |
| 7 | At times he feels that the most he can hope for is to identify some fissures in the accumulating mass of proposals in their formative stages into which he can try to insert something of his own political values . |
| 8 | 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 . |