Example sentences of "[modal v] hardly be said to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 2 | The English armies could hardly be said to have been outfought since they had not yet fought at all . |
| 3 | By themselves , these facts do not stand as a complete answer to the challenge : if the industrial co-operative form of organisation is more efficient than the conventional form , why is it that the first has not displaced the second but has remained until recently a negligible feature of the economy and , even now , can hardly be said to have become so far of more than marginal importance ? |
| 4 | Joseph Needham 's only indexed reference to dreaming in ancient China is tantalizingly brief : Oneiromancy , or prognostication by dreams , was also practised in China , as in most ancient civilisations , though it can hardly be said to have taken a very important place there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Chomsky ( 1957 : 100 ) goes even further , for he holds that to is a morpheme that " can hardly be said to have a meaning in any independent sense " . |