Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] hardly be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can hardly be said for composers such as Webern , whose fifty-odd songs have accompaniments which are almost undistinguishable one from another and are certainly unmemorable . |
| 2 | Article 11 can hardly be said , therefore , to ‘ weaken ’ the Convention it allows States who wish to be more generous to a claimant than the minimum standards set out in the earlier articles to do so , but not for more than minimum standards to be imposed by a requesting State on a requested State . |
| 3 | Whereas the same can hardly be said of other worries , worries ( for instance ) about deception and decay . |
| 4 | The same can hardly be said of today 's Australia . |
| 5 | And just as well : because , however persuasive the case for the public ownership of particular industries , experience since 1945 can hardly be said to bear out the general case , the proposition that public ownership is the necessary precursor to the realisation of the rights of man . |
| 6 | So that can hardly be said in itself to constitute an intolerable situation . ’ |