Example sentences of "hardly be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. L. Smith , chairman of the Adult Education Committee at the Ministry of Reconstruction , also warned : ‘ If industrial moral and social side must be taken up in a way that had hardly been experimented upon as yet … |
| 2 | Though the second aspect was short-lived , it remained as an ideal concept that inspired future kings and emperors ; and the first has hardly been surpassed by any superior achievement to this day . |
| 3 | He 's keen to open the minds of his audience — Janacek , he says , has hardly been heard in Italy , and he 's determined to open his season with Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 4 | The Temple of Luxor , with its distinctive columns shaped like bundles of papyrus , overlooks the tree-lined waterfront of the Nile ; close by is the massive complex of Karnak , the largest place of worship known to man , an intricate combination of ram-headed sphinxes , labyrinth passageways and chambers , whose detail has hardly been affected by the elements over thousands of years . |
| 5 | One aspect of this year that does particularly please me , is the continued success of our washroom hygiene service , where sales for contracts and jobs have hardly been affected by the economic climate . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the conservation side has hardly been publicised in the case of the London Zoo — and in these pro-environment days where so many people are ‘ going green ’ , this is a great shame . |
| 7 | The socially sanctioned dominance of male over female has hardly been questioned in Salvadorean society " and domestic violence and sexual assault are largely unrecognized and go unreported : |
| 8 | There was some dissatisfaction with the curriculum , which had hardly been touched by the modernisation drive . |
| 9 | So far these problems have hardly been explored from the viewpoint of psychology or sociobiology . |
| 10 | Ask Mr Brown about Proposition 13 , the 1978 ballot initiative that crippled local government , and he will say that it should be reformed ; but he has hardly been spotted on the barricades shouting that cause , let alone trying to tackle it directly in the legislature . |
| 11 | He is also sure that she has hardly been educated at all . |
| 12 | Her attraction to him had hardly been swathed in subtlety . |
| 13 | The problems of French archaeology are deep-rooted , although the discipline is recently established : the law which supports its activities dates only from 1941 , and has hardly been modified since then . |
| 14 | For example , medicine ran to 80 pages , whereas the schedule for chemical technology had hardly been modified since the second edition . |
| 15 | The steady growth of the grip of family members on so many walks of life had a stifling effect on initiative , which had hardly been encouraged before 1965 . |
| 16 | The sexual behaviour of blacks has hardly been controlled in such a way as to create a gene pool in which specific physical traits related to power , speed and agility became dominant . |
| 17 | One possibility for the near-future which has hardly been considered by developers so far , is a marriage of an old-fashioned storage such as the magnetic hard disc with a newcomer such as DVI . |
| 18 | Plans for devolution have been exchanged , but have hardly been considered by the other side . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Whereas the same can hardly be said of other worries , worries ( for instance ) about deception and decay . |
| 21 | The same can hardly be said of today 's Australia . |
| 22 | Bruges goes to bed early and can hardly be said to be throbbing with night-life . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She moves ( for example ) between speaking of the crucifixion of Christ ( fact ) to the cosmic nature of Christ — which can hardly be said to be ‘ true ’ in the sense of an empirically known fact . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Prince of Wales could hardly be said to be a good luck symbol at the moment . |
| 30 | Instead it turns out to be very much concerned with rhetoric , which can hardly be said to be new for this age or even essentially syntactic . |