Example sentences of "can hardly [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar test can hardly be applied to legal advice . |
| 2 | Whereas the same can hardly be said of other worries , worries ( for instance ) about deception and decay . |
| 3 | So even if we agree that abolition was his intention and that that intention would have failed , if we consider also that it was mistaken anyway , we need pursue the point no further , except to add this : granted that the evil of insufficiently regulated competition is that it leads ultimately to the vicious exploitation of employees , the point can hardly be made of industrial co-operatives . |
| 4 | If , for example , a man threatens to kill a third party who is a complete stranger to the complainant , her submission to sexual intercourse in these circumstances can hardly be regarded as true consent . |
| 5 | This can hardly be described as sisterly behaviour . |