Example sentences of "can hardly be [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Thus it can hardly be argued that the LEA had not taken steps to facilitate improvements in the school .
2 It can hardly be said that the German Empire contained Prussia .
3 But it can hardly be said that the relationship between the two sectors has been as mutually productive as it might be .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ I can hardly be blamed if the production was cancelled . ’
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