Example sentences of "[noun] can hardly be " 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 | The Nestle Co. 's intention can hardly be in doubt . |
| 3 | Social life based on this condition can hardly be favourable to older people , and the more turbulent and anarchical the times , the worse their condition and status has been . |
| 4 | But other languages like Telegu , Bengali , Marathi , Tamil , Urdu , Gujarati , Kannada and Malayalam can hardly be ignored ; each is probably spoken by more people than the population of 145 of the member-states of the United Nations . |
| 5 | A cynical observer might argue that the assembly of a £5 million bid might easily be described as ‘ something being done ’ , and the failure of the attempt can hardly be viewed as a positive step , even if the debate on the estate 's future is now reopened . |
| 6 | The value of long-term rotation plan in solving this equation can hardly be overstressed ( see Figure 3 , p. 46 ) . |
| 7 | If ‘ the active experience of music ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 133 ) is held to take place now solely in the imagination , more ‘ functional ’ kinds of musical practice can hardly be condoned , still less allowed the possibility that they embody social critique . |
| 8 | That a decision may turn out to have this ultimate effect can hardly be blamed on the decider , who is unable to see that far ahead . |
| 9 | Tax gatherers and political economists usually subscribed to a rhetoric of taxing " luxuries " , but sufficient aggregate yields can hardly be secured from imposing only on the consuming habits of the well-to-do . |
| 10 | Nimue or the Lily Maid would require a model and the Princess can hardly be asked for so much of her time , though I hope she may think the time spent on ‘ Christabel before Sir Leoline ’ was not wholly wasted . |
| 11 | A similar test can hardly be applied to legal advice . |
| 12 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 13 | The donor of a power of attorney who appoints as his attorney a person incapable of understanding the import of a simple transfer can hardly be allowed , if the donee signs a transfer without any understanding of what he or she is doing , to repudiate the transfer on the ground of a lack of understanding on the part of the donee . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For example , even if the essence of democracy is taken to be the process of choosing between elites competing to govern , the very business of choosing can hardly be confined to the visit to the polling booth . |
| 16 | Three countries can hardly be more unalike in their political and economic situation than Nigeria , Ethiopia and Rhodesia . |
| 17 | The following analysis of the influence of armaments engineers on policy making also holds good for telecoms engineers : The key roles played by the corps of armaments engineers in making France 's arms complex run can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the City Council can hardly be blamed for wanting to sponsor large crowd-pulling cultural events in what is undoubtedly the most obvious place for them , right among the country 's leading museums and near its most prestigious concert-hall . |
| 19 | Brian Leith 's The Descent of Darwin : A Handbook of Doubts About Darwin can hardly be recommended in the same terms . |
| 20 | The chancellor can hardly be accused of complacency . |
| 21 | If , for example , a man threatens to kill a third party who is a complete stranger to the complainant , her submission to sexual intercourse in these circumstances can hardly be regarded as true consent . |
| 22 | Equally , the value of professionals who are trained and experienced in rehabilitation can hardly be in doubt , and all doctors should at least understand the basic concepts . |
| 23 | What Karl Rahner achieved in those years can hardly be summarized ( but see his Foundations of Christian Faith , 1978 , ch . |
| 24 | The pertinence of these findings to police investigation can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 25 | For all that , the teacher can hardly be absolved from the attempt to clarify his own mind . |
| 26 | So even if we agree that abolition was his intention and that that intention would have failed , if we consider also that it was mistaken anyway , we need pursue the point no further , except to add this : granted that the evil of insufficiently regulated competition is that it leads ultimately to the vicious exploitation of employees , the point can hardly be made of industrial co-operatives . |
| 27 | Yet this alone can not account for the negative results , for the weight of evidence is such that the general conclusion can hardly be challenged . |
| 28 | The picture can hardly be described as a dynamic one . |
| 29 | Gorillas , dolphins and whales certainly have a reputation for being peace-loving and harmless to humans but , on the other hand , tigers and polar bears are both well known as potential man-eaters , while elephants can hardly be described as innocuous , even if they prefer to mind their own business most of the time . |
| 30 | However well-intentioned an Arnold or an Attlee or a Keynes or a Webb I suspect that the outcome can hardly be what they envisaged . |