Example sentences of "hoped that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hoped that a New Year 's holiday in Belgium would help him but the mental turmoil came back in force . |
| 2 | They hoped for no benefit of internal interpretation or the construal of favourable terms ; rather , they hoped that a disposition in dubious form might be admitted to be a disposition of legal force , or that a disposition in an invalid will might not sink into the oblivion of intestacy . |
| 3 | I kept ‘ the smile ’ rigidly fixed and hoped that a very untimely spot on my chin would not be too obvious . |
| 4 | The staff hoped that a French micro , the Thompson 07 , could be modified for use in their first major pilot project near Marseilles . |
| 5 | No one seriously believed that the Institution , having spawned the policy , would make itself responsible for its implementation , but all hoped that a watching brief would be maintained ; this has been the case , but with a complication : no financial provision . |
| 6 | Thus , though Lugard could not avoid committing himself , in principle , to providing a Western education ( that notorious producer of disrespect ) to Africans who desired it , he hoped that a system could be devised which would render them ‘ efficient , loyal , reliable and contented — a race of self-respecting native gentlemen ’ . |
| 7 | The panel also hoped that a tutor/carer , possibly an older man , could be assigned to the family to teach the child Mr and Mrs M had taught , and to provide some sort of male role-model . |
| 8 | ‘ We hoped that a local MP who was a leading sportsman would identify with our cause rather more than Seb Coe has done . |
| 9 | As more and more accumulated the pressure built up : under these circumstances he hoped that a really effective way of making helium might result . |
| 10 | The Benelux states were hostile to the suggestion , because they hoped that a geographical expansion of EEC membership , including British participation , would occur before concrete political plans were discussed . |
| 11 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 12 | Broomhead did not see fit to let Aggie know this and hoped that a change of abode might revitalise the tomcat 's flagging performance . |
| 13 | Alfred Berry also confessed that he had been drinking , and hoped that a lenient view would be taken of his misconduct . |
| 14 | Nixon hoped that a more conservative Supreme Court might back tougher law enforcement methods , and he appointed a mid-western conservative , Warren Burger , as Chief Justice on the retirement of the liberal Earl Warren . |
| 15 | Sukarno suffered from malaria ; in 1938 he was moved to Benkulen in Sumatra , perhaps for humanitarian reasons ( in 1936 Hatta and Sjahrir were moved from their vile jungle camp ) , or perhaps because the Dutch hoped that a more Islamic environment would complete his ‘ conversion , from politics to religion , for Islam in Sumatra was more powerful than the syncretic faith of Java . |
| 16 | No doubt Soviet leaders hoped that a Soviet-inspired collective security regime could underwrite the decline of the American military presence in Asia , but the primary Soviet target was China . |
| 17 | Conference organizers hoped that a treaty could be in place for signature at the UN conference on environment and development , to be held in Brazil in June 1992 . |
| 18 | Martin Lee , leader of the United Democrats of Hong Kong , said that he hoped that a politician would be more receptive to the will of the people than a diplomat . |
| 19 | An ANC official said later that he hoped that a transitional executive council would be in place by March or April 1993 to prepare for elections . |
| 20 | A few years ago we hoped that a footpath would have been incorporated in the flood protection scheme . |
| 21 | Admittedly some American liberals hoped that a moderate socialist government might turn out to be more progressive than British " Toryism " as understood across the Atlantic . |
| 22 | The local minister , the Rev Roy Manson , told the gathering of family and friends that he hoped that a positive message might emerge from their grief . |
| 23 | Mr Pena hoped that a new aviation agreement could be reached this year between the US and the UK and added that the US would vigorously defend the right of its carriers abroad . |
| 24 | He hoped that an early frost was not the sign of a hard winter . |
| 25 | Therefore the designers of more recent systems hoped that an improvement in bottom-up recognition would permit them to achieve good recognition rates even with less advantageously arranged grammars . |
| 26 | Kennedy might thus have decided that the question was not worth pursuing had it not been for British persistence and Foreign Office assessments which suggested that the Soviets themselves hoped that an agreement of some kind might result . |