Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] can hardly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two main types exist ; thermal and electrostatic although there are other categories such as the laser — although this can hardly be classified as low-cost ! |
| 2 | When there were contractors to be handed out directors may have tried to help one another , but that can hardly have been a sufficient reason for buying up large blocks of shares . |
| 3 | But this can hardly be our fault when we consider how Milton manages , with or without intention , to build up a wonderfully vivid and intriguing portrait of Satan and offers little else to give any sense of decent , moral , proportion . |
| 4 | Mention has already been made of the eight-petalled rosette , and its appearance in at least two of the small , tangent squares in North Hill , mosaic B ; but this can hardly be considered an important association . |
| 5 | There are a few thickenings in some of them , but these can hardly be described as brains . |
| 6 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |