Example sentences of "[pers pn] can hardly [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can hardly suppose that she sat for you or that it was commissioned . ‘ |
| 2 | As for the moral angle , I can hardly see that even muscular Christianity can underwrite such a sport . |
| 3 | I can hardly see that a mere frigate is going to inconvenience you to all that extent . |
| 4 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 5 | over taking you know cutting right in front of you and er , you just , I see things in front of me and I can hardly believe that there has n't been a horrible accident , you know , just seeing the things that happening on the road . |
| 6 | I wrote : ‘ Darling John , I can hardly believe that your birthday is here again and you 're still not home . |
| 7 | I can hardly believe that this is the same company that produced the excellent Ami Pro manuals . |
| 8 | After that little performance you can hardly deny that you want me . |
| 9 | ‘ As you wish , although you can hardly imagine that Jones would mind if he did find out . |
| 10 | You can hardly believe that a few stretchsuits and some nappies can possibly cost as much as they say , but nine months and a lot of shopping trips later , you will have been forced to accept that your new addition has managed to tip the scales severely in the debit direction . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If he makes no will we can hardly say that there is in early times any common law as to how his goods shall be divided ; much or all will depend on local custom . |
| 16 | We can hardly deny that " existence predicates " carry a logically independent descriptive content without being prepared to say the same of " truth-predicates " . |