Example sentences of "[vb mod] hardly [verb] to be " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The men themselves could hardly bear to be above ground ; at least down below they had each other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If he thought that he would hardly want to be the next head boy . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They can hardly bear to be out of physical contact with the machine and when they are they carry their printouts around with them . |
| 10 | ‘ It can hardly fail to be an improvement on Mangrove East , in any case . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It can hardly fail to be the biggest and liveliest feast of modern poetry we 'll get in years . ’ |
| 14 | As we consume little more than 10 litres of wine per person per year , Britons can hardly claim to be a ‘ wine-drinking nation ’ . |
| 15 | To ignore what has been regarded as central by such civilizations and persons can hardly claim to be a fair and objective approach . |