Example sentences of "it [modal v] be hoped that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although these activities only relate to a fraction of the total number of UK library authorities , it may be hoped that they foreshadow a revival of interest in an essential and much neglected component of the book provision process . |
| 2 | Chairman Roger Pedder says : ‘ While it may be hoped that the position will improve , members of the 1990/91 and 1991/92 policy years would be prudent to make provision for supplementary calls of 7% and 6% of the contributions for these years . ’ |
| 3 | It must be hoped that in the 1990s the nature of the modern business cycle is different from what it was in the 1920s and that the long-term devastation caused by Britain 's return to the Gold Standard will not be repeated . |
| 4 | It must be hoped that the continuing discussions on a second market can produce a viable middle option . ’ |
| 5 | Nicholas received them all himself , saying that ‘ It might be hoped that they came for their own good or his own , for he lived to make himself or others better . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ A European ’ , Temple wrote , ‘ can not exert a personal influence on the characters of more than one hundred to two hundred natives ’ ; but if he concentrated on ‘ guiding and controlling the native leaders ’ , then his influence would be ‘ magnified by a natural process a thousand fold ’ and the result would be that : ‘ The power thus exerted is infinitely greater in scope than any power or influence which it can be hoped that he will exert under the … system of Direct Rule . ’ |