1. The hoped-for boom never materialized.

2. The hoped-for economic recovery in Britain did not arrive.

3. The hoped-for improvement never came.

4. The new policy did not bring the hoped-for economic recovery.

5. I was at home when the desperately hoped-for call came through.

6. Unfortunately, the hoped-for investment boom did not materialize.

7. Hoped-for rents never materialized, and a complex financial situation became even more difficult to control.

8. The experiment is bringing many hoped-for outcomes, as well as many unintended ones.

9. Then, in May 1823, the hoped-for pardon arrived and he was able to resume a normal life at Kinloch.

10. I was in hospital when the desperately hoped-for call came at 10.30 one Monday night.

11. Back on board, the hoped-for but unexpected sight of a deus-ex-machina in the form of our travel agency chief is immensely reassuring.

12. In fact, fears were unfounded and the hoped-for benefit was achieved.

13. Other hoped-for measures include tax breaks for industry to encourage investment and more cash for building projects.

14. But Abdl Khadr's hoped-for new Libya has one advantage.

15. In the end the starved bones of the hoped-for deer herd, dead of its own too - much, bleach with the bones of the dead sage, or molder under the high - lined junipers.

16. The hoped-for effect on employment has not been noticeable while small- and medium-sized firms, particularly in the private sector, complain that they are not getting much of the new cash.

17. The hoped-for result is to raise $106 million next year.

18. And hoped-for social change, too, such as the two Koreas marching under a unification flag.

19. It will raise fresh worries for the Government that the much hoped-for consumer spending upturn remains beyond the horizon.

20. It was the sort of price any commander had to pay for hoped-for victory.

21. But a head must in the end tolerate something less than the hoped-for whole being achieved.

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22. But the reports continue, and things could get a lot worse if the hoped-for rainy season does not arrive next month.

23. So far this earnings season, companies have shown improved bottom lines, but have delivered little of a hoped-for increase in sales.

24. Even so, there is no shortage of them, with each having motives besides making a hoped-for return on their investment.

25. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is in the Egyptian capital Cairo for talks on both Libya and Egypt's hoped-for transition to democracy following the fall of Hosni Mubarak.

26. The economy has turned out weaker than the president expected, depriving him of hoped-for tax revenue.

27. Mass privatisation broke the planners' grip but failed to create the hoped-for shareholder democracy.

28. It could bring enormous benefits if I could convince Congress to pass the budget, and if it got the hoped-for response from the Federal Reserve and the bond market.

29. But the trip by Xie did not produce the hoped-for agreement.

30. Changhua Wu, the group's greater China director, said Chinese members joining was important in the run-up to a hoped-for international agreement in Copenhagen in 2009 to cut emissions.

1. The hoped-for boom never materialized.

31. Much of the hoped-for consolidation in China could come at the expense of mills that make lower-margin construction grade steel.

32. However, dire figures for exports in January (a fall of 4.4% compared with December) aroused fears that the hoped-for boom in exports will be stillborn.