Example sentences of "it can hardly [be] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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1 | It can hardly be said that the German Empire contained Prussia . |
2 | It can hardly be said that his optimism was fully justified , though ironically enough the supply did become more than adequate in most seasons from the middle of the century onwards , when traffic dropped away . |
3 | But it can hardly be said that the relationship between the two sectors has been as mutually productive as it might be . |
4 | It can hardly be said that anything very surprising emerges in the pupils ’ criticism of teachers . |
5 | The last remark could be made of financial problems also , yet , even in these hard times , it can hardly be said that insoluble money problems beset over half the population of Britain . |
6 | Thus the question remains an open one , and it can hardly be said that the hotel proprietor had put his property to any special or unusually sensitive use . |
7 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
8 | Thus it can hardly be argued that the LEA had not taken steps to facilitate improvements in the school . |
9 | But it can hardly be denied that there is a moral duty to protest when a society is governed unfairly , unjustly , or in a corrupt or slipshod manner . |
10 | Despite these protestations , however , it can hardly be denied that Nietzsche 's main enthusiasm , and the main stimulus to his enthusiasms in general , was no longer Schopenhauer , but the composer whose devotee he was and whose intimate friend he shortly became . |
11 | When it came to removing southern pauper children in large numbers to northern or Midland factories , it can hardly be denied that this , albeit short-lived , stage of the evolution of the factory labour force not only systematised but bruta-lised child labour . |
12 | Okay er , according to Darwin , and here I quote , in infants long before birth , says Darwin , the skins on the soles of the feet is thicker than on any other part of the body , and it can hardly be doubted that this is due to the inherited effects of pressure during a long series of generations . |
13 | .. It can hardly be considered that to ask an employee to acquire basic skills as to retrieving information from a computer … is something in the slightest esoteric or even , nowadays , unusual . |
14 | But it can hardly be overemphasized that the new images were not constructed in any artificial , mechanistic sense , separate , as it were , from attitudes and real social relationships on the one hand and , on the other , the economic and political structures of society . |