Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] can hardly " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of this annual increment of rich topsoil can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 2 | The importance of this level can hardly be exaggerated today . |
| 3 | The value of long-term rotation plan in solving this equation can hardly be overstressed ( see Figure 3 , p. 46 ) . |
| 4 | Social life based on this condition can hardly be favourable to older people , and the more turbulent and anarchical the times , the worse their condition and status has been . |
| 5 | But in numerical terms this factor can hardly have made a major impact — the Max Planck Institutes permanently employ only 2000 researchers , compared with a total of 76 000 university academics of whom more than 20 000 are professors . |
| 6 | Taking out some and reducing the number of pests is one thing , but reliable eradication can hardly be expected or hoped for , and much as it may displease those purists who do not like the idea of using poisonous chemicals in the garden , they have to be our main line of defence and protection of our roses . |
| 7 | The right hon. Gentleman can hardly refer to such a body as having the kind of authority with which he seeks to imbue it when it disagreed on a number of matters and failed to address any of the ones that really matter . |
| 8 | Even allowing that man 's capacity to overlook what he does not want to see is almost unlimited , the folk of this age can hardly have failed to observe that new law was being made all the time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The importance of social care can hardly be overestimated . |
| 11 | Readers of the British press can hardly have failed to notice the headlines announcing ‘ How the Universe Began ’ , ‘ the Holy Grail of Cosmology ’ and the ‘ Discovery of All Time ’ . |
| 12 | Its population at this time can hardly have been less than 50,000 and may easily have been well over 60,000 . |
| 13 | However , it is patently obvious that parents can be a good or bad influence and example for their children , and this fact can hardly be used to explain present patterns of crime . |
| 14 | A similar test can hardly be applied to legal advice . |
| 15 | The donor of a power of attorney who appoints as his attorney a person incapable of understanding the import of a simple transfer can hardly be allowed , if the donee signs a transfer without any understanding of what he or she is doing , to repudiate the transfer on the ground of a lack of understanding on the part of the donee . |
| 16 | Its very steep , fully south-facing slope can hardly be missed as one approaches the village from Tours-sur-Marne . |
| 17 | If this decision is followed in New South Wales , the prosecution will not be prevented from establishing actual bodily harm under Category 2 or grievous bodily harm under Category 1 on the ground that the victim consented to it since such injury can hardly be in the public interest . |
| 18 | Certainly he never made any secret of his Conservative past , having twice stood unsuccessfully for parliament among the miners of County Durham , where his air of a slightly lost rural dean can hardly have been an asset . |
| 19 | A satisfactory theory of human cognition can hardly be established by experiments that provide inexperienced subjects with brief opportunities to perform novel and meaningless tasks . |
| 20 | The following analysis of the influence of armaments engineers on policy making also holds good for telecoms engineers : The key roles played by the corps of armaments engineers in making France 's arms complex run can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 21 | The poor thing can hardly bring herself to speak at all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But whatever else was lost , the impetus that Winckelmann had given to Greek scholarship in Germany survived ; and if we wish to understand its subsequent history and the remarkable growth of German classical scholarship as a whole , we should not forget his formative contribution , even though much of the impending development can hardly be traced directly back to him . |
| 24 | But any magazine that retains a nonagenarian film critic and a weekly cartoonist who has entered his eighth decade can hardly be said to be immature . |
| 25 | There is nothing to prevent eleven ( or fewer ) Member States entering into a treaty between themselves on matters outside or additional to the existing treaties — indeed the Maastricht Treaty itself , as is well known , envisages less than twelve Member States acting together in the ‘ new ’ areas of Monetary Union and Social policy — and in that sense can hardly be regarded as deepening the Community as previously defined . |
| 26 | That a decision may turn out to have this ultimate effect can hardly be blamed on the decider , who is unable to see that far ahead . |
| 27 | Yet this alone can not account for the negative results , for the weight of evidence is such that the general conclusion can hardly be challenged . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If ‘ the active experience of music ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 133 ) is held to take place now solely in the imagination , more ‘ functional ’ kinds of musical practice can hardly be condoned , still less allowed the possibility that they embody social critique . |
| 30 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |