Example sentences of "we can hardly [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can hardly leave Landor here with her — think what might happen , on days like today , were we not here to be a calming influence ! ’ |
| 2 | His own father , Charles the Cheesemonger , was neither a cardmaker nor a pauper , and we can hardly suppose that any loss of common rights through enclosures had had any direct impact upon his family as it had upon so many others . |
| 3 | If the bias we have detected in broadcasting was not obvious to media specialists we can hardly expect that it would have been obvious to the general public . |
| 4 | In the provinces of the empire , however , there was no choice of magistrates : the provincial governor ( or a deputy appointed by him ) heard all cases , whether they were based on the civil law or not ; and we can hardly expect that he switched from one procedure to another according to which kind of case he was hearing . |
| 5 | We can hardly expect adolescents to have respect for the possessions of others if they have no hope of attaining any of their own . |
| 6 | But with Nietzsche in mind , we can hardly conclude this section without mention of Richard Wagner : a figure of central importance to Nietzsche , albeit one of only peripheral relevance to the tradition in itself . |
| 7 | ‘ We can hardly go in demanding a guided tour without any kind of official search warrant . ’ |
| 8 | Though we have no contemporary commentary on the Pergamene works we can hardly go wrong if we choose to see in them a monument to human pain made somehow more tolerable to contemplate because embodied in barbarians . |
| 9 | To state the relevant causal circumstance , would we not have to do what we can hardly hope to do , which is to enumerate parts of much of the whole state of the universe at or during a time ? |
| 10 | Compulsory labour services in many Latin-American countries were not abolished , and indeed intensified , so that we can hardly speak of a general liquidation of serfdom there . |
| 11 | We can hardly speak . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , Miss Hardbroom , ’ said Mr Hellibore , ‘ we can hardly send the girl back to school again after this act of heroism , now can we ? ’ |
| 13 | Between these two extremes there are obviously many degrees of importance , so we can hardly make hard and fast rules which suit all occasions . |
| 14 | We can hardly tell the Finance and Executive Committee that the British are unreliable at the vehicle plants , but as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar when it comes to components . ’ |
| 15 | Dropping hankies is out and we can hardly leer at gentlemen from behind our fans , can we ? |
| 16 | Whereas we are encouraged to remember the pre-war years as the home of traditional discipline and common sense , we can hardly fail to notice the sympathy which reaches out to Hatton 's bad boys or to Butterworth 's hyperactive little terror — a sympathy , what is more , that nowadays would often be slapped down as a sentimental , modern , postwar ‘ permissive ’ fad . |
| 17 | ( Unhappily ) We act on scraps of information … sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct . |
| 18 | SOMETHING WHICH WE CAN HARDLY MISMANAGE |
| 19 | We can hardly do justice to the wide scope of psychological theories here , but there are some basic ideas and assumptions which underlie such theorizing . |
| 20 | To understand the importance of these procedural developments , we can hardly do better than conclude with a comparison : Blackstone 's graphic and dismaying picture of the damage being done in England by entails . |
| 21 | " We can hardly walk for the weight of the ones we 've got ; what good will those do ? |
| 22 | He did n't seem to grasp that we can hardly bury a head without a body . |
| 23 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 24 | ‘ I assure you , Sir John , ’ Mowbray rasped , ‘ we can hardly find our way around the Tower in the full light of day , never mind on a freezing winter 's night . ’ |
| 25 | Some part of Sisson 's censures must surely be conceded : whatever esteem we have and should have for Gavin Douglas 's translation of the Aeneid , we can hardly believe that the Philadelphian Ezra Pound was any more at ease than most of us with Bishop Douglas 's sixteenth-century Scots . |
| 26 | Now that things are actually moving , she said ’ we can hardly believe it ’ . |
| 27 | We can hardly suppress what the police surgeon has just told us . |
| 28 | Mr Browning paced about and then said , ‘ You place us in a difficult position , Wilson , and one we can hardly approve . |
| 29 | All this is widely socially sanctioned , so we can hardly describe ourselves as ‘ animal lovers ’ . |
| 30 | Indeed , we can hardly penetrate the minds of these citizens , but we can very readily contemplate the paradoxical results of their works , and their inspiration . |