Example sentences of "it [vb past] [be] hoped 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had been hoped that Dr Bamford and Dr Wolkind would contribute a chapter for this book but time constraints made this impossible . |
| 4 | It had been hoped that the Americans ' long-delayed decision to recognise the government might have obliged UNITA to co-operate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |