Example sentences of "it can hardly [be] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In small birds it can hardly be rendered except as a blur of wings ; we can sometimes see their wingspread clearly when they threaten each other or quarrel at bird tables . |
| 2 | Yet governments ought to resist the temptation to dismiss peace movements as representing only a minority opinion , for it is in the nature of a wider but vaguer anxiety about the issue that it can hardly be organized or form the basis of a coherent campaign . |
| 3 | It can hardly be said that the German Empire contained Prussia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it can hardly be said that the relationship between the two sectors has been as mutually productive as it might be . |
| 6 | It can hardly be said that anything very surprising emerges in the pupils ’ criticism of teachers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus it can hardly be argued that the LEA had not taken steps to facilitate improvements in the school . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | .. 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 . |
| 17 | Although it can hardly be described as state-of-the-art software , it 's still worth a look . |
| 18 | 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 . |