Example sentences of "but it can hardly be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it can hardly be denied that there is a moral duty to protest when a society is governed unfairly , unjustly , or in a corrupt or slipshod manner . |
| 2 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
| 3 | But it can hardly be said that the relationship between the two sectors has been as mutually productive as it might be . |
| 4 | But it can hardly be overemphasized that the new images were not constructed in any artificial , mechanistic sense , separate , as it were , from attitudes and real social relationships on the one hand and , on the other , the economic and political structures of society . |
| 5 | 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 . |