Example sentences of "hope [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 4 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest , while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 5 | All Leeds , who remain a point behind Manchester United but have now played two games more , can hope for is a similar display by City at Old Trafford on Tuesday . |
| 6 | And the best a mother can hope for is that they 'll occasionally pop home |
| 7 | So without risking political suicide , all the Greens can hope for is more visibility , credibility , and their campaign expenses back , if they get federal seats . |
| 8 | If he is , maybe the best Howard Wilkinson can hope for is to field someone who at least knows where Durrant is . |
| 9 | ‘ The best Ellery can hope for is a place on the bench , ’ said manager Doug Laughton . |
| 10 | The best that employers can usually hope for is to reach agreement with some of those affected . |
| 11 | The most we can hope for is that we do n't actually believe it . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Under natural conditions cattle would be anoestrous at the time , so the best we can hope for is subfertility . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Even if one has good scientific ideas , it is never enough just to publish them : the world will never beat a pathway to the door of the scientific recluse ; and all that the Avogadro or the Mendel can hope for is posthumous fame . |
| 17 | The best I can hope for is to be dragged home and given stuff to make me manageable . |
| 18 | But the best that a virtuous woman can hope for is that she be reborn as a man . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Campbell is unlikely to start the game however ; he is short of match practice and the most he can hope for is a place on the bench . |
| 25 | The best we can hope for is rain and that may not be too much to hope for with Wimbledon on the horizon . |
| 26 | ‘ The best we can hope for is to go to Wolves on May 2 in need of one or three points . ’ |
| 27 | The best they can hope for is the No.2 spot or the play-offs . |
| 28 | A turbulent and closely-fought weekend meeting of the party executive suggests that the best Alex Salmond and his colleagues can hope for is grudging acquiescence from the majority within the party . |
| 29 | The most Bush can hope for is Soviet agreement for more help for the military blockade ; what he 'll probably achieve is yet another condemnation of Saddam Hussein . |
| 30 | Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house . |