I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chance/hope/possibility of escape
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The river offered our only hope of escape.
a vain hope
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Young men moved south in the vain hope of finding work.
abandoned...hope
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Rescuers had abandoned all hope of finding any more survivors.
anger/confidence/tension/hope etc drains away
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Sally felt her anger drain away.
beacon of hope
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The education program offers a beacon of hope to these children.
cherish a hope/an idea/a dream etc
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willingness to re-examine cherished beliefs
cling to the hope/belief/idea etc (that)
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He clung to the hope that she would be cured.
crumb of comfort/hope/affection etc
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There was only one crumb of comfort – Alex hadn’t said anything to Jeff.
destroy sb’s hopes
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Losing the game destroyed the team’s hopes of reaching the semi-finals.
express your hopes/desires (= say what you hope or want to happen )
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Nadia expressed her hopes about remaining in San Diego County with her two children.
false hopes
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I don’t want to give you any false hopes .
forlorn hope
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the forlorn hope of finding a peace formula
fulfill...hopes
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It was then that the organization finally began to fulfill the hopes of its founders.
full of excitement/energy/hope etc
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Lucy was a happy child, always full of life .
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He was full of praise for the work of the unit.
glimmer of hope
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a glimmer of hope for the future
have high hopes/expectations
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Like many young actors, I had high hopes when I first started out.
hope and pray
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I hope and pray that this is a misunderstanding.
hope for a miracle
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I knew I would probably never walk again, but I couldn’t help hoping for a miracle.
hope not
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‘Is Mark still sick?’ ‘I hope not .’
hope so/think so/say so etc
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‘Will I need my umbrella?’ ‘I don’t think so.’
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If you want to go home, just say so.
hopes and aspirations
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their hopes and aspirations for the future
let’s hope (that)
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Let’s hope he got your message in time.
lose confidence/interest/hope etc
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The business community has lost confidence in the government.
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Carol lost interest in ballet in her teens.
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Try not to lose heart become sad and hopeless – there are plenty of other jobs.
new hope/confidence/optimism etc (= hope etc that you have only just started to feel )
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a medical breakthrough that offers new hope to cancer patients
not hold out much hope/hold out little hope
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Negotiators aren’t holding out much hope of a peaceful settlement.
not hold out much hope/hold out little hope
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Negotiators aren’t holding out much hope of a peaceful settlement.
sb’s hopes and fears
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We each had different hopes and fears about the trip.
sb’s hopes/fears/plans for the future
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What are your hopes for the future?
shatter sb’s hopes
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Their hopes had been shattered by the outbreak of war.
squash rumours/hopes/reports etc (= say that a rumour etc is not true )
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The government was quick to squash any hopes of reform.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
let
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So let us hope that the association is long and fruitful.
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I would like to thank everyone for their efforts in 1993. Let us all hope for better things in 1994.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I only wish/hope
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I only wish I knew what I could do to help.
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And I only wish the world had a sense of the glamour like we had in the Sixties.
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At present I only wish to draw attention to a possible ambiguity in a crucial move.
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Exhibit A in defense of the caveman. I only wish Becker had taken questions from the audience.
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I am sorry your life is so burdensome, I only wish I could help in some way.
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I enjoyed the whole of the Chuck Berry interview - I only wish we'd had longer.
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It's a great honour and I only hope and pray I won't let Monsieur down.
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It will suit Mrs Rochester perfectly. I only wish I were more handsome, as she's so beautiful.
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They were all very heartened that some one was at last taking an interest: I only wish I had had a tape recorder!
I should think/imagine/hope
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He said there might be one way, you know, I should think about it.
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I wouldn't mind. I should think he'd be very demanding.
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Interesting, I should think, with a name like Hamish.
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Look at my dad. I should think he's got half his lunch down his.
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Looking forward to getting back to your farm, I should think?
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Not for far, I should think - not if its nose has gone.
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Rather like seizure, I should imagine.
I swear/hope/wish/pray to God
a faint hope/possibility/chance etc
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I thought about letting it ring, but there was a faint hope that it might be Sally.
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If it can startle the predator in some way, there is a faint chance that the enemy may panic and flee.
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That uncertainty urges us to look beyond the present, with a faint hope to control our future.
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There remained a faint possibility that Newley would try to identify the person who collected the money.
a fond hope/belief
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That overcautious disposition was noticed long ago, but there was a fond hope that experience would cure it.
a ray of hope/light etc
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Amid the crushing disappointment of the general election there was a ray of light for the Conservatives.
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Besides, today there had been a ray of hope.
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But only when a ray of light attempts to pierce this darkness does the real, eerie action unroll.
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But the Red Or Dead catwalk show offered a ray of hope.
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Each time a ray of light passes through a lens it is slightly weakened.
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The Government's resignation is a victory, a ray of hope to take into the dark days ahead.
bereft of hope/meaning/life etc
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How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!
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These women were old and toothless at a young age, their eyes bereft of hope.
can only hope/wait etc
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Dagenham's employees can only hope that Ford does not resurrect the phrase in the 1990s.
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Hamilton can only hope he improves as much as Benes has since the Padres traded him.
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Like the steeplechase where Vronsky breaks his mare's back with reckless riding, you can only wait for the pistol shot.
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The scientists can only wait and hope.
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Users can only hope the vendors will apply the same effort to other unresolved technology issues.
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We can only hope Gilstrap won't push to have any of that text deleted.
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We can only wait and help each other and watch this dreadful plague spread.
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You can only hope they learned from their mistakes.
fondly imagine/believe/hope etc
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Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves.
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Some Tories fondly imagine that privatisation will eliminate the need to subsidise the railways.
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The Gombe rainforest is not the sort of Eden we might fondly imagine.
high hopes/expectations
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I had high expectations for this book.
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It is possible to be creative while still having high expectations of pupils.
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Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment.
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Salespeople require goals set for them with maximal clarity and hold high expectations for recognition for their accomplishments.
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There are high hopes for the game around Wearside.
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There is a sense of anticipatory disillusion among those who recall how the high hopes of 1986 were dashed.
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There were a lot of high expectations.
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We had high hopes for television in those early days.
pious hope/wish
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But in the present climate that is a somewhat pious hope.
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But these were merely pious hopes.
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Criteria Unless there is a quantitative criterion there is no objective, only a pious hope of better times.
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The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.
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This may be a pious hope.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Have we got enough money for the rent?'' "I don't know. I hope so.''
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Bob's hoping to travel to Africa next year.
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Even when everyone else thought he was dead, Julie never stopped hoping.
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I'm hoping for a better salary in my next job.
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See you soon, I hope !
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She could only hope and pray that Liza would be back to her normal self the next time she saw her.
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We hurried out of the building, hoping that no one would see us leave.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A gang leader could hope to rise up the hierarchy of a hive.
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Both areas are monitored round the clock by surveillance cameras and detectives are hoping that the hoaxer has been captured on tape.
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I hope to have more details for you in the next Journal.
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I enjoyed my time at Fontainebleau, especially wandering in the forest, hoping to see a wild boar.
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I said I hoped Oliver Ingraham was bringing Jasper lovely things to eat.
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It was hoped that, with more publicity, people would leave their cars at the village hall instead and walk.
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We hope that this book will help sportspeople accept their encounters with the sublime and uncanny.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
faint
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The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry, leaping flames.
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The last faint hope that there had been some mistake died.
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The former Chelsea man duly obliged with two headers to keep alive Rangers' faint hopes of a title challenge.
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The shares had just started to recover on faint hopes of a busy festive season.
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Will the forgotten peasants suddenly find that some one has remembered them? Faint hope .
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His heart sank, his faint hope of creating an opportunity to escape crushed.
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Fabia returned to her room, but her faint hopes were already getting fainter.
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And Glentoran's win at Larne put the final nail in their faint qualifying hopes .
false
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I hate unidentified corpses - can't help thinking of women and children, living and waiting in false hopes .
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When you care about a dear departed show, a highly promoted new episode offers a kind of false hope .
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No, that was a false hope .
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Ecstasy to despair to false hope , et cetera.
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But having given Labour false hopes , will the media now make sure that Labour suffers from false despair?
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The family and others also cling to these times of false hope .
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Now the couple had expected it was dead and we gave them false hope .
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Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely.
forlorn
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For Coulthard, the prospect of posting a third successive Silverstone win looks a forlorn hope at best after another disappointing race.
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But these outcasts of the consumer boom have learned to make even a forlorn hope go a long way.
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Well, it had been a forlorn hope at best.
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Even they realise, however, that the real world makes that an increasingly forlorn hope .
full
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He arrived in Nice full of hope and, indeed, managed to secure a showing for both at Cannes.
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The old Citroen stopped, then continued momentarily. Full of hope , it steered around the corner.
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I can see the church steeple, the church I married in, full of hope .
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Far from it: he had come out of the darkness and was full of hope and plans.
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Suddenly I was full of hope again, and I gave a great shout of happiness.
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A young girl in a strange city. Full of hopes and dreams, and excitement.
great
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Now he could go inward, freely, into his own mind, Ellen had great hopes for him.
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Observing these young people in action also gives me great hope .
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Some years ago you pinned great hopes on television as a means of promoting chess.
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It is also not a hospitable environment for advertisers, on whom great hopes for profit rest.
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These types hang around the Great in the hope of getting them to pull a string.
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Gerald Furr underwent the procedure Nov. 11 with great hopes .
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But was Bobby the great hope for a Democratic revival?
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It is indeed a message of the greatest hope .
high
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What started with high hopes for mutual support among poor countries was confounded by market forces.
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His teacher, who had founded the missionary school, had high hopes for his star student.
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There is a sense of anticipatory disillusion among those who recall how the high hopes of 1986 were dashed.
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We had high hopes for television in those early days.
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She was an actress who, like the rest of them, had high hopes .
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Whatever Texas accomplishes in the weeks ahead, the Horns are a leg up on the high-hopes curve.
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There are high hopes for the game around Wearside.
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In only two months their high hopes and dreams of returning home had been dashed.
little
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At only 19 oz doctors gave her little hope .
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The Standing was in its ninth month, and there seemed little hope of compromise.
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There's little hope in this film - the forces of law are as bad in their way as the drug barons.
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And there was little hope that government intervention would bring about a more flexible cinema industry.
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Bloodied but unwilling to give up, he has little hope of winning Florida or any of the Southern state primaries Tuesday.
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Genetic modification is the latest fad-one that the authors give little hope .
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They go about their tasks with little enthusiasm, hope , or urgency.
only
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The only hope was to move to energy self-sufficiency.
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In the long term, Mr Heseltine said that privatisation was the only hope for the industry.
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But mad or not, you are my only hope , Meg.
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It's a great honour and I only hope and pray I won't let Monsieur down.
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And anyway, Ace was right: their only hope was to close with the enemy.
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The only hope then is rather like injecting antibodies into our own blood - a systemic fungicide.
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Our only hope is sponsorship but even here I feel that most corporations would prefer investment.
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That had been a hard time, Mrs Cruz said; there were three children and only hope to feed them on.
real
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And it's clear the new partnership up front gives real hope for United.
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Our only real hope lies with a vaccine.
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No real hope of doing that, of course.
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There is real hope , probably futile, that the second hike to 17.5 percent will somehow be wished away.
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His only real hope was to get Amaryllis to cross the Border with him.
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Then-then-there was that real hope of regular money.
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Research is offering patients real hope .
vain
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This proved a vain hope , as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.
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In the last months of 1978 several of his former servants were arrested in this vain hope .
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It was usually a vain hope .
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But I knew this was a vain hope because the house was always locked securely.
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Better than enduring his fumbling during the night in the vain hope of satisfaction when the need was strong in her.
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But since passion does not come in bottles it seems a vain hope .
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Guided by a mournful bleating, he came across several groups of sheep, huddled together in the vain hope of safety.
■ VERB
abandon
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Instead, at this point Sartre at last abandons all hope of proving History as a totalization without a totalizer.
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To abandon hope should be a one shot deal; a man should not have to do it twice.
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She had long since abandoned that hope .
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Thus, there is still enough separation between the Goldens and the Jerseys to keep Warriors fans from abandoning hope entirely.
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She had abandoned all hope of getting her contract down in black and white!
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At three in the morning, she abandoned any hope of getting to sleep.
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Nice lips, shame about the teeth. Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
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My consolation is in your ecstasy when you abandon hope , and there's nothing to be done.
bring
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He had brought it in the hope of finding a second-hand saddle of his own.
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The former Republican senator from Maine brings priorities that spell hope for companies worried about further cuts to military spending.
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The vaccine brings hope to 1,300 young children struck down by the Hib form of deadly disease every year.
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They succeeded because they brought hope to the losers whom the march of progress had left behind.
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It brought hope and a valuable point to the bottom of the table side.
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Such ritual brings no hope , and it diverts to barrenness emotions which might otherwise have been fruitful.
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It would probably be too slow to bring the hope now needed to avoid social unrest and possible collapse.
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I should not let them linger, wasting time, wasting money, until the spring brings them fresh hope .
dash
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That's why your father didn't want to dash your hopes unnecessarily.
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The building up and dashing down of his hopes .
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The current scandal could improve his chances-or prompt a crackdown that might dash any hope of his getting power.
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Blacking out at the restaurant had dashed those hopes .
destroy
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Antony has turned the tables completely and has now completely destroyed all hopes of the conspirators ever establishing themselves in Rome.
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In a few days, a few hours, war destroyed their hopes .
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What if the fortune-teller was destroying her hope and joy with that strange, harsh voice.
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Perhaps the ending is meant as a sad acknowledgment that people often destroy their own brightest hopes .
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An opening round of 76 had destroyed his hopes of improving on his second place behind Ian Woosnam the previous year.
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Second, we have seen off the threat of a world trade war which would have destroyed any hope of economic recovery.
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It destroys hope for a better life.
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A power vacuum would probably destroy his hopes for a smooth transition of authority.
entertain
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Most of official Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in East-West relations.
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However, I do not encourage the hon. Gentleman to entertain high hopes in that regard.
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Most significantly on my sense of a distant but still valid national identity-until then I had entertained hopes of return.
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After this it is possible for labouring poets to entertain far greater hopes of public impact.
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Meanwhile that one Catholic entertained the hope that his freedom to defend the Copernican system might yet be restored.
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Nor, until tonight, had he dared entertain any hope of release.
express
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Several times in his life Gandhi expressed the hope not to be born anew.
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Meanwhile they've expressed hope that all concerned will be left alone to put Hannah's death behind them.
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In announcing the victims fund, the banks expressed the hope that it would promote a more cooperative spirit in the negotiations.
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He expressed the hope that future good relations would help lay to rest the mistakes of the past.
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Even as Bancroft expressed this liberal hope , the lines were being drawn.
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We may pour out our hearts about the situation in which we find ourselves, expressing our trust, hope and confidence.
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He expressed a hope that we might meet again during the remaining two days of his stay and have a longer conversation.
give
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In 1095, Anselm had not yet given up hope of working amicably with the king.
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They give hope and help to those in need and a sense of joy and self-worth to us.
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I've never given hope much thought until now.
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But the pause gave hope to others.
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We're not giving up hope .
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But if the dove were crushed, they must turn back and give up all hope of the Golden.
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I'd almost given up hope that you'd ever see me as a girl ... a woman.
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When the garrison had begun to give up hope that he would act, he at last did something.
hold
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But they do hold out hope - sort of.
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Still, I held on to my hope .
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And he could hold out no hope of any financial assistance.
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When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she didn't hold out much hope of prising his purse open.
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I want Fairfax to tell me, but I don't hold out much hope .
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I don't hold out much hope though!
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Look, don't hold out too much hope that you're going to be successful in this.
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For if the landscape holds some hope to the left it brings with it threats from the right.
live
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I do not doubt that she wants to live and we all hope that she will.
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Mike looked at me appreciatively; he lived in the hope of intrigue.
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She lived in hope and dread.
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While you live , there is hope; while he or she lives, there is hope.
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But they lived in hope that they might be so blessed.
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Unlike other exiles, however, she didn't live in the half hope that she might.
lose
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But then generals have not lost hope altogether of clinging on to power.
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When people lose things of such magnitude, they easily lose hope too.
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The pain from the cold was very great, and I began to lose hope .
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She even hinted that she had remained a virgin, risking losing Jay rather than losing her hopes in life.
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We've lost hope ...
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I thanked him for that, but I was losing hope .
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She had every justification not to lose hope , she reminded herself.
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If we had lost hope , the desert dawn would restore our faith.
offer
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Yet the theory and practice of community development can offer some hope in the matter of the control of health care.
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Forbes is not simply selling a flat tax; he is offering hope and confidence.
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Educational vocationalism does not seem to offer much hope for the reform either of education or of the labour market.
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People without any education at all seem to offer the best hope .
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To be sure, the new generation of flexible, individually controlled telecommunications technologies offers new hope for educational improvement.
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But at first glance, his own might have seemed to offer little hope of withstanding its seventy-five-ton impact.
pin
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He is pinning some hope on a cabinet reshuffle.
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He seems to pin his hopes on it.
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This year it is pinning its hopes on an 8% uplift in passenger growth to around the 82m mark.
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City leaders are pinning high hopes for the future as well.
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Geller is pinning primary hopes on getting the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal on a procedural point.
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They pin little hope on the new Home Secretary, Kenneth Clarke.
raise
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From April, child benefits are to be raised in the hope of encouraging parents to produce a few more babies.
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To raise her hope unnecessarily would be unforgivable.
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Her view of the interior of the shed was limited but what she did see raised her hopes .
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The script fits Steve Forbes, whose self-financed run for the Republican presidential nomination is raising hopes and hackles.
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It is unfair on the candidates to raise their hopes unnecessarily, and is a waste of your own time.
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That would raise unjustified hopes and there had been no reciprocation.
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By exploring these events in detail, will we raise false hopes that athletics is a special path to mystic insight?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I only wish/hope
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I only wish I knew what I could do to help.
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And I only wish the world had a sense of the glamour like we had in the Sixties.
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At present I only wish to draw attention to a possible ambiguity in a crucial move.
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Exhibit A in defense of the caveman. I only wish Becker had taken questions from the audience.
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I am sorry your life is so burdensome, I only wish I could help in some way.
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I enjoyed the whole of the Chuck Berry interview - I only wish we'd had longer.
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It's a great honour and I only hope and pray I won't let Monsieur down.
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It will suit Mrs Rochester perfectly. I only wish I were more handsome, as she's so beautiful.
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They were all very heartened that some one was at last taking an interest: I only wish I had had a tape recorder!
I should think/imagine/hope
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He said there might be one way, you know, I should think about it.
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I wouldn't mind. I should think he'd be very demanding.
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Interesting, I should think, with a name like Hamish.
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Look at my dad. I should think he's got half his lunch down his.
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Looking forward to getting back to your farm, I should think?
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Not for far, I should think - not if its nose has gone.
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Rather like seizure, I should imagine.
I swear/hope/wish/pray to God
a faint hope/possibility/chance etc
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I thought about letting it ring, but there was a faint hope that it might be Sally.
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If it can startle the predator in some way, there is a faint chance that the enemy may panic and flee.
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That uncertainty urges us to look beyond the present, with a faint hope to control our future.
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There remained a faint possibility that Newley would try to identify the person who collected the money.
a fond hope/belief
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That overcautious disposition was noticed long ago, but there was a fond hope that experience would cure it.
a ray of hope/light etc
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Amid the crushing disappointment of the general election there was a ray of light for the Conservatives.
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Besides, today there had been a ray of hope.
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But only when a ray of light attempts to pierce this darkness does the real, eerie action unroll.
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But the Red Or Dead catwalk show offered a ray of hope.
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Each time a ray of light passes through a lens it is slightly weakened.
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The Government's resignation is a victory, a ray of hope to take into the dark days ahead.
bereft of hope/meaning/life etc
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How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!
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These women were old and toothless at a young age, their eyes bereft of hope.
build up sb's hopes
can only hope/wait etc
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Dagenham's employees can only hope that Ford does not resurrect the phrase in the 1990s.
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Hamilton can only hope he improves as much as Benes has since the Padres traded him.
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Like the steeplechase where Vronsky breaks his mare's back with reckless riding, you can only wait for the pistol shot.
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The scientists can only wait and hope.
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Users can only hope the vendors will apply the same effort to other unresolved technology issues.
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We can only hope Gilstrap won't push to have any of that text deleted.
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We can only wait and help each other and watch this dreadful plague spread.
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You can only hope they learned from their mistakes.
cross my heart (and hope to die)
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I didn't take it, cross my heart!
crush sb's hopes/enthusiasm/confidence etc
dash sb's hopes
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a shattering knee injury which dashed his hopes of playing in the World Cup
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I didn't want to dash your hopes unnecessarily.
disappoint sb's hopes/expectations/plans
entertain an idea/hope/thought etc
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He had entertained thoughts of marrying her and raising a family, but he entered the Society instead.
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Most significantly on my sense of a distant but still valid national identity-until then I had entertained hopes of return.
fondly imagine/believe/hope etc
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Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves.
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Some Tories fondly imagine that privatisation will eliminate the need to subsidise the railways.
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The Gombe rainforest is not the sort of Eden we might fondly imagine.
high hopes/expectations
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I had high expectations for this book.
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It is possible to be creative while still having high expectations of pupils.
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Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment.
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Salespeople require goals set for them with maximal clarity and hold high expectations for recognition for their accomplishments.
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There are high hopes for the game around Wearside.
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There is a sense of anticipatory disillusion among those who recall how the high hopes of 1986 were dashed.
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There were a lot of high expectations.
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We had high hopes for television in those early days.
match up to sb's hopes/expectations/ideals etc
pin your hopes/faith on sth/sb
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Duregar pinned his hopes on Dwarven determination to keep the army safe.
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He seems to pin his hopes on it.
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Ministers are pinning their hopes on a big spending Christmas this year to give the High Street and struggling businesses a boost.
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Stores, pinning their hopes on a brighter Christmas, were cheerful.
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This year it is pinning its hopes on an 8% uplift in passenger growth to around the 82m mark.
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Those who pin their hopes on highly specified, short range solutions may or may not get it right.
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Treacy is pinning his hopes on Derry again falling victim to a goal famine of crisis proportions.
pious hope/wish
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But in the present climate that is a somewhat pious hope.
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But these were merely pious hopes.
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Criteria Unless there is a quantitative criterion there is no objective, only a pious hope of better times.
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The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.
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This may be a pious hope.
repose your trust/hope etc in sb
spark sb's interest/hope/curiosity etc
stand a chance/hope (of doing sth)
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You'll stand a better chance of getting a job with a degree.
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C., woman fumed outside the museum where a crowd stood hoping to get a ticket to hear Wiesel.
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Dougal didn't struggle: even if he could have got out of the duvet, he wouldn't have stood a chance.
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In the face of Queeensrÿche they didn't stand a chance.
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No Labour rethink that ignores this will stand a chance of success in the future.
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Schools from across the country craved his talents, but only two stood a chance.
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The rest must keep pace if they are to stand a chance-advertising works.
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The women stand a chance in the foil competition with Charlene DiMiceli.
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This was the crunch match they really had to win to stand a chance of staying up.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everett soon forgot all his hopes of fame and fortune.
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Most of these youths have no jobs and no hope for the future.
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My hope is that Peter will realize his mistake and apologize.
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Recent reports of a ceasefire agreement have given us new hope .
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The Queen sent a message of hope and sympathy to the American people.
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Thousands of emigrants set off for the New World full of hope .
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We haven't had much success yet. but we live in hope .
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We now have no hope of finding any more survivors.
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Doone, with his promise of instant detection once I woke up, must have been the end of hope .
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Her one hope was an operation to ease the pain.
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If our dreams are not coming true, if depression plagues our steps, we should remember that there is always hope .
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My hope is a more settled and competent defence this season will help him re-gain a lot of confidence.
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The business projections he gave me were hopes rather than realities.
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What these entities ultimately accomplish may be academic; but their mere existence should give doomsayers cause for hope .
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Without the strike, and without stock, what hope is there for labor?