Example sentences of "hardly [adv] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Universities have hardly ever been held in lower esteem . |
| 2 | This task , the creation of new constructive ideals , has hardly ever been accomplished by youth alone . |
| 3 | Interestingly , homosexuality has hardly ever been rehabilitated as a positive difference within and by those heterosexual discourses which have hitherto constructed it as negative other . |
| 4 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 5 | On the other hand , a number of American Indian languages such as Yana and Navaho have grammatical categories which in many other languages would hardly ever be expressed even by lexical means . |
| 6 | As to knowledge , however , he need not be familiar with all the details of the contract , for otherwise the tort would hardly ever be committed . |
| 7 | This seems a gross overstatement , as it includes assets such as National Trust land which can hardly later be sold — even in theory — like shares in ICI . |
| 8 | In International Relations specifically there is much talk of competing paradigms , meaning not just that there are conflicting unrefuted theories but that the conflict reflects starting points which can hardly even be compared . |
| 9 | The full potential of DRAs has , however , hardly yet been recognised . |