Example sentences of "[vb mod] hardly be [verb] that [art] " in BNC.

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1 Adjectives occurring postnominally with characteristic value are perhaps less frequently encountered , but they are still by no means uncommon ; we have already queried Bolinger 's view of the only river navigable ; and in the third example from ( 17 ) , it could hardly be claimed that the buildings were only adjacent on some particular occasion .
2 The conclusion could hardly be avoided that the Führer , who only a short while before had been speaking so confidently of imminent victory , had been mistaken .
3 It need hardly be said that the industrialist of the steam age did not build his own house near the works , as the country factory owners had done .
4 10.3 The Tenant acknowledges that [ its ] obligations under this agreement and the Lease shall not be affected or lessened in any way by the fact that there may now or subsequently exist any Restrictions and the Tenant shall with effect from the Possession Date comply with and indemnify the Landlord in respect of any liability under any Restrictions ( whether made before or after the Possession Date ) save in so far as such liability arises from failure by the Landlord to comply with [ its ] obligations under clause 2.2.2 It need hardly be said that the tenant 's solicitor should make all usual inquiries to ascertain whether any such restrictions exist at the date of the agreement .
5 It need hardly be added that the examiner always wants reasons and authorities for the answer , even though he does not expressly ask for them .
6 Thus it can hardly be argued that the LEA had not taken steps to facilitate improvements in the school .
7 It can hardly be said that the German Empire contained Prussia .
8 But it can hardly be said that the relationship between the two sectors has been as mutually productive as it might be .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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