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Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb mod] hardly be " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered .
2	And I can hardly be expected to leave my three-year-old brother here in the care of a strange man . ’
3	Our man of property may be an author or a patentee , and we shall hardly be able to say that his copyright or patentright is not part of his property , or even to avoid speaking of his ownership of the copyright or patent .
4	They were well fed and well disposed to each other and they could hardly be blamed if they felt just a little smug .
5	This must not detract from the enormous value of May 's pioneer work in publishing such large collections , and he can hardly be blamed for being the victim , as we all are in turn , of the limitation of the knowledge and ideas of the day .
6	The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear .
7	The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear .
8	And it can hardly be coincidental that James is referred to as ‘ Zadok ’ .
9	Thus the question remains an open one , and it can hardly be said that the hotel proprietor had put his property to any special or unusually sensitive use .
10	More than likely he fully understands the reason , and it can hardly be accounted any man 's fault .
11	Okay er , according to Darwin , and here I quote , in infants long before birth , says Darwin , the skins on the soles of the feet is thicker than on any other part of the body , and it can hardly be doubted that this is due to the inherited effects of pressure during a long series of generations .