Example sentences of "hope to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisation they say — though I 've never cracked it myself — is the key to success and you ca n't hope to be efficient unless , for a start , you have a tidy garden shed or garage , where most people store tools these days ! |
| 2 | But Scotland , with an economic base now concentrated on light rather than heavy industry , and services and decision-making centres far away from Edinburgh and Glasgow , can not hope to be spared the effects of recession . |
| 3 | The Republic was associated with virtue and austerity , so that society could not hope to be improved until the regime responsible for this fearful debauching of the public mind was overthrown . |
| 4 | But at the end , we are alone , and only in the lives and memories of our children , our friends and our work can we hope to be remembered . |
| 5 | What has been said above about sampling can only hope to be the very lightest of scratches on the surface of what is a vast subject in itself . |
| 6 | It can not hope to be complete , but with luck Bromberg will even now be working on a detailed history of the TFTR experiment . |
| 7 | The aim of this small investigation , which can not hope to be truly scientific , is to investigate the extent of the problem and to see if there are any obvious patterns . |
| 8 | He was a very sick man before the operation , and there was clearly small prospect that he could hope to be anything else , even if the machine worked well . |
| 9 | That is when I would hope to be able to draw upon this philosophy and see the bad times through . |
| 10 | We may have some desire to be appreciated for our physical appearance , but most of us would hope to be desired for what we are down inside . |
| 11 | If I can get through this season and maybe onto the ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand , then I would hope to be in a position to start having a big influence on matches , rather than just reacting to events as they happen ’ . |
| 12 | Blur , the Valentines and Dinosaur Jr on in the wrong order , at the wrong time , in the wrong place , before the wrong crowd , using inappropriate equipment , and putting you in the worst mood you could hope to be in for the Mary Chain ? |
| 13 | The holder of three scientific degrees — from Oxford , UCLA and MIT , all summa cum laude — in electrical engineering and electronics , Denholm was as close to being an electronics wizard as any man could ever hope to be . |
| 14 | ( No such lists can hope to be comprehensive but it is a pity that no reference is made to Geoffrey Beard 's indispensable and pioneering studies on decorative plasterwork in the Adam period . ) |
| 15 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 16 | They had no idea that the woman they escorted was far more lethal than ever they could hope to be . |
| 17 | The major one is that there is no way that the researcher can hope to be aware of , still less control , all the possible independent variables , and this casts doubt on any conclusions that may be drawn about causes . |
| 18 | He was as certain of his audience as any man could ever hope to be . |
| 19 | Foucault argues that just as there can be no general theory of history , but only particular answers to particular questions which make individual practices intelligible , so the intellectual can best hope to be specific rather than universal ( universal in the sense of proposing transcendent values , systems , totalities , narratives or teleologies ) . |
| 20 | No doctor could hope to be appointed to a job or advance his or her career , even in a so called teaching hospital , on the basis of his teaching skills alone . |
| 21 | But some of them will have been men who lived permanently within their lord 's gates , his closest companions , who , after several years ' service , might hope to be rewarded with fiefs . |
| 22 | Namibia 's media institutions can not play an effective role in the process of nation-building and development if they are not staffed with knowledgeable and skilled personnel , nor can they hope to be successful in their general functions to inform and enlighten the Namibian public without adequate professional training and research . |
| 23 | Namibia 's media institutions can not play an effective role in the process of nation-building and development if they are not staffed with knowledgeable and skilled personnel , nor can they hope to be successful in their general functions to inform and enlighten the Namibian public without adequate professional training and research . |
| 24 | What do you hope to be doing in a couple of years ' time ? |
| 25 | I 'd hope to be assassinated before dusk . |
| 26 | Always treat the caller in the way in which you would hope to be treated . |
| 27 | Instead of insisting on the possibility that there be no adequate translation , we should recognize what indeterminacy really means ; the different indistinguishably good translations are all as good as translations can hope to be . |
| 28 | So she gazed and her finger traced the outlines of nymphs — thinner , higher cheek-boned than she could ever hope to be , garlanded with flowers , stepping barefoot through the forest ; and sometimes she saw an exhausted Venus , a hand below her belly , lying in a countryside where oxen were driven and ships set sail on uncharted seas . |
| 29 | I might hope to be a better grandfather than I 'd been a father . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ On that subject , ’ Orcadai spoke finally , ‘ I would hope to be consulted first . ’ |