Example sentences of "[vb mod] hardly [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hooker 's was a name which could hardly fail to be included on the list of those whom the Church wished to commemorate in 1980 . |
| 2 | Similarly , the girls in the scheme could hardly fail to be aware of eyes on them , and of their success in mathematics being of importance to significant others . |
| 3 | Kate could hardly fail to be aware that Ace was now reliving the past . |
| 4 | That was something he could hardly mention to Lorton . |
| 5 | She was a wreck and had planned to go and do something about it once dinner had been prepared , but now that would have to go by the board — there would be no time — and , besides , she could hardly appear to Luke 's business partner and his wife in one of Luke 's towelling robes , could she ? |
| 6 | While also talking of national renewal , the Communist Party emphasises its ability to concentrate resources on reviving the economy in a way that a Popular Front government could hardly expect to . |
| 7 | Muggers who decided to phase out mugging by 1993 could hardly expect to be let off , yet the UK expected to go on breaking the law with impunity . |
| 8 | The men themselves could hardly bear to be above ground ; at least down below they had each other . |
| 9 | She could hardly bear to be contradicted , and no good mother , in my mother 's view , would send her child to stay with a daft person . |
| 10 | In fact , Luke could hardly go to greater lengths in stressing that the Age to Come dawned with Jesus ' birth . |
| 11 | ‘ If the secret one was stolen , he could hardly go to the police . ’ |
| 12 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 13 | Twice , he got to Nicosia and could hardly respond to the ardour he found in Primaflora . |
| 14 | Oliver had his own ideas on this , which he could hardly put to Mrs Figgis-Hewett ; they involved her dramatic appearance before the dinner began when he had worked out she could have added something to Sir Thomas 's drink in the confusion . |
| 15 | By the fusion of joints , certainly , it need hardly matter to him which ones . |
| 16 | If he thought that he would hardly want to be the next head boy . ’ |
| 17 | After Pendero 's race , the trainer would hardly speak to him . |
| 18 | As my hon. Friend will know and as hon. Members will hardly need to be reminded , a large number of roles are currently carried out by the Royal Auxiliary Air Force . |
| 19 | They can hardly bear to be out of physical contact with the machine and when they are they carry their printouts around with them . |
| 20 | In utterance ( i ) , come can not denote movement towards the addressee , because the subject of come is you , and the addressee can hardly move to where the addressee already is . |
| 21 | The right hon. Gentleman can hardly refer to such a body as having the kind of authority with which he seeks to imbue it when it disagreed on a number of matters and failed to address any of the ones that really matter . |
| 22 | ‘ It can hardly fail to be an improvement on Mangrove East , in any case . ’ |
| 23 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 24 | In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not . |
| 25 | ‘ It can hardly fail to be the biggest and liveliest feast of modern poetry we 'll get in years . ’ |
| 26 | A conundrum , even for Nell : ‘ Men who wish their sexuality , or any aspect of their maleness , to be expressed … can hardly go to the P.D.s ! |
| 27 | But a wife 's implied consent and contract can hardly extend to being overpowered and stupefied by drugs for the purpose of intercourse . |
| 28 | I can hardly get to the bar . ’ |
| 29 | They are giving me so much discomfort now , I can hardly listen to these gentlemen . ’ |
| 30 | As we consume little more than 10 litres of wine per person per year , Britons can hardly claim to be a ‘ wine-drinking nation ’ . |