Example sentences of "hope [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And the best a mother can hope for is that they 'll occasionally pop home |
| 3 | The most we can hope for is that we do n't actually believe it . ’ |
| 4 | But the best that a virtuous woman can hope for is that she be reborn as a man . |
| 5 | The most I can hope for is that I might meet him over a pint and get him to be indiscreet-tell me if there is any dirt on Desmond Seymour-Strachey , for example . ’ |
| 6 | If he is unlucky , then there will be a battle at sea , and the best he can hope for is that none of our sea-borne army manages to make a landing . |
| 7 | That does n't mean it necessarily worked or was good ; but , once the script is settled in your mind , the best you can hope for is that the finished film reflects those ambitions . |
| 8 | The best she could hope for was that someone would come along and abuse her in various disgusting and incomprehensible ways . |
| 9 | In such cases the most that an employer could hope for was that by his treatment of his workers he could obtain some minimal loyalty . |
| 10 | What we have to hope for is that its control over the language and its position as an arbiter of the quality of that language are maintained . |
| 11 | ‘ What they will be hoping for is that they can get to a few months before before the next election , take the brakes off and try to deceive the people once again things are back on course . |