Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] hardly be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 2 | And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client . |
| 3 | The policing of CND rallies and the miners ' strike could hardly be said from the Government 's point of view to have failed , and certainly the police did not suffer for want of legal powers . |
| 4 | The English armies could hardly be said to have been outfought since they had not yet fought at all . |
| 5 | But any magazine that retains a nonagenarian film critic and a weekly cartoonist who has entered his eighth decade can hardly be said to be immature . |
| 6 | The Tema Russo Finale can hardly be said to go off like a rocket either . |
| 7 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 8 | Given their less-favoured area status , Scottish and north of Scotland agriculture can hardly be said to have contributed to the problems of CAP overproduction and the related MacSharry implications . |
| 9 | [ I ] t can hardly be said that our constitution knows of such a thing as any specific right of public meeting … . |
| 10 | The development of computer-based public access systems to the holdings of one or more libraries , together with advances in online bibliographic searching , have increasingly led to the use of CAI programmes for user training , yet use of CAI programmes can hardly be said to be widespread . |
| 11 | The Prince of Wales could hardly be said to be a good luck symbol at the moment . |