Example sentences of "can hardly [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 2 | The way these various aspects of current Roman catholic social teaching were presented in the Irish constitution can hardly be taken as fulfilment of the need to reflect the opinions of the majority of the republic 's population . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the equally essential but less tangible skills which make the difference between the ordinary and superlative restaurant manager can hardly be judged in the short period of a competition . |
| 4 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 5 | If Pollard 's architecture is so disposable and flippant that it is odd to call him a ‘ patron ’ , Palumbo 's patronage is so single-minded that he can hardly be called a developer . |
| 6 | Bruges goes to bed early and can hardly be said to be throbbing with night-life . |
| 7 | As I have tried to show , the significance for our culture of humanist transgression , this escape from repression into the affirmation of one 's true self can hardly be overestimated . |
| 8 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 9 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 10 | The chancellor can hardly be accused of complacency . |
| 11 | Ma Bell can hardly be described as a raider set on rape and pillage . |
| 12 | Their devastating consequences , it is true , can hardly be overstated . |
| 13 | Novelists can hardly be expected to be au fait with international law and religion . |
| 14 | This can hardly be described as sisterly behaviour . |
| 15 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 16 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 17 | The martyrs ' role in turning late antique towns into Christian cities can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 18 | Within the Nazi Movement and the coercive apparatus of the State , symbolizing the struggle to rid Germany of its Jews , and increasingly the struggle to destroy Jewry itself once and for all , it had a significance which can hardly be overrated . |
| 19 | Without our reproductive system , there would be no life , so they can hardly be unimportant . |
| 20 | Metrolink 's two-car ‘ supertrams ’ , costing £1 million apiece , can hardly be compared with their noisy , hard-riding predecessors which departed Manchester 's streets in 1949 . |
| 21 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , for example , can hardly be expected to explain publicly the extent to which our joining the ERM has tied his hand . |
| 22 | They are low , so low that they can hardly be called a threshold — more a ramp , with a sign over it begging ‘ Please , please walk up ’ . |
| 23 | The importance of social care can hardly be overestimated . |
| 24 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 25 | It can hardly be said that the German Empire contained Prussia . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Some scientists predict a great increase in skin cancers in humans over the next decades , and the effects on other life forms can hardly be calculated . |
| 28 | It concludes ‘ Apart from the river and its natural beauties Henley has nothing to put forward to entice the holiday-maker to give a preference to the town and although the objection to a public promenade might be well-founded there can hardly be any well-grounded opposition to a golf course being laid out . ’ |
| 29 | Accordingly , the demonstration that latent inhibition training will also retard subsequent inhibitory conditioning can hardly be taken as evidence that latent inhibition is quite different from conditioned inhibition . |
| 30 | Nimue or the Lily Maid would require a model and the Princess can hardly be asked for so much of her time , though I hope she may think the time spent on ‘ Christabel before Sir Leoline ’ was not wholly wasted . |