Example sentences of "[pers pn] can hardly be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 3 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 4 | My belief that I am in pain may be justified , perhaps , but I can hardly be said to base it on reasons , conclusive or otherwise . |
| 5 | Inevitably , er that has not been entirely acceded to , and indeed to some extent er I can hardly be surprised as events move on during the course of the enquiry . |
| 6 | ‘ I can hardly be blamed if the production was cancelled . ’ |
| 7 | I can hardly be expected to know that , can I ? |
| 8 | And I can hardly be expected to leave my three-year-old brother here in the care of a strange man . ’ |
| 9 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 10 | If you yourself do not know what you want out of the meeting you can hardly be surprised if the person you are dealing with does not respond in a satisfactory way . |
| 11 | Now this is an argument that is so intellectually contemptible that you can hardly be bothered to demolish it . |
| 12 | I know you can hardly be expected to adopt all your expressions erm but you should n't be too technical in you know . |
| 13 | The protest of the human individual against the massive forces which control him is indeed a theme which can be seen in contemporary art , literature , music and drama , in the struggles against racialism , poverty and war , in the popular movements of Western youth and in the renewed campaign for women 's emancipation ; so we can hardly be surprised if parents too begin to question the authority of the experts . |
| 14 | Without our reproductive system , there would be no life , so they can hardly be unimportant . |
| 15 | They are low , so low that they can hardly be called a threshold — more a ramp , with a sign over it begging ‘ Please , please walk up ’ . |
| 16 | Such combinations constitute formulaic patterns which are indeed of very frequent occurrence in language use and need to be accounted for ( as I mentioned in Chapter 3 ) but they can hardly be said to represent the total language to be taught . |
| 17 | These ‘ activities ’ are not temporary ( more 's the pity ) but they can hardly be equated with the professor 's letter typing , which is a periodic state of affairs and will not last . |
| 18 | They can hardly be surprised when others make use of this representation rather than the narrower and more qualified one . |
| 19 | Blimpish or not , they can hardly be expected to do otherwise . |
| 20 | But even though sponges can produce such miraculous complexities as this , they can hardly be counted as properly integrated multicellular animals . |
| 21 | Their delicate character and the fact that they accompanied a woman means that they can hardly be interpreted literally as weapons . |
| 22 | They can hardly be very late in the first half of the sixth century . |
| 23 | Some words are already almost music : Shakespeare 's words are already so musical that they can hardly be set to music . |
| 24 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 25 | It can hardly be said that the German Empire contained Prussia . |
| 26 | It can hardly be said that his optimism was fully justified , though ironically enough the supply did become more than adequate in most seasons from the middle of the century onwards , when traffic dropped away . |
| 27 | .. It can hardly be considered that to ask an employee to acquire basic skills as to retrieving information from a computer … is something in the slightest esoteric or even , nowadays , unusual . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But it can hardly be said that the relationship between the two sectors has been as mutually productive as it might be . |
| 30 | 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 . |