Example sentences of "[modal v] hardly be consider " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drawing on a Stoic concept of seeds , which he applied even to the origin of Adam and Eve , he had a sense of natural order that could hardly be considered hostile to further inquiry . |
| 2 | On the surface at least , as non-owners of the means of production , they could hardly be considered as part of the bourgeoisie . |
| 3 | Even the profit based on the Coniston ore could hardly be considered handsome . |
| 4 | Comparative industrial relations studies which involve Spain are virtually non-existent , the only exception springing to mind being Dunlop 's analysis in the 1950s ( when Spain could hardly be considered an ‘ advanced ’ capitalist country ) of the ‘ web of rules ’ in the construction industry ( 1958 : ch. 6 ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps he thought that her own wishes would hardly be considered in the matter . |
| 6 | .. It can hardly be considered that to ask an employee to acquire basic skills as to retrieving information from a computer … is something in the slightest esoteric or even , nowadays , unusual . |
| 7 | The next sentence begins ‘ Yet reason tells me … ’ and ends ‘ … then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination , can hardly be considered real . ’ |
| 8 | It seems to us to be an evolutionary survival factor : the more intelligent a species , the more likely it is to survive in the long term ; this is a reasonable hypothesis , but it can hardly be considered as any more than that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Certainly its application within the large domestic market of the United States , which alone accounts for some 40 per cent of world air travel , can hardly be considered an unqualified success . |