Example sentences of "[modal v] hardly expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll hardly expect separate cards from the two of us , though since you 're likely to be sending them one it would n't hurt to add my name to yours . |
| 2 | While also talking of national renewal , the Communist Party emphasises its ability to concentrate resources on reviving the economy in a way that a Popular Front government could hardly expect to . |
| 3 | Muggers who decided to phase out mugging by 1993 could hardly expect to be let off , yet the UK expected to go on breaking the law with impunity . |
| 4 | ‘ We could hardly expect to find a crack Soviet pilot who is an open dissident . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 6 | He could hardly expect her to queue at a bus stop . |
| 7 | " You could hardly expect my people , weak and hungry as they are , to carry them all the way from King Darzin 's garden . |
| 8 | You could hardly expect him to be ready to defend it , or give his life for it . |
| 9 | You could hardly expect him to regard it as his home . |
| 10 | Oh , beggin' your pardon , ma 'm , but with a name like Queen 's Old Castle I could hardly expect you to like it . ’ |
| 11 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 12 | ‘ I could hardly expect her to eat alone , ’ I said . |
| 13 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |
| 14 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 15 | Given the author 's centre-right political stance ( he is a potential Presidential candidate in Peru ) one could hardly expect the portrait be sympathetic . |
| 16 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 17 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 18 | And of course , if you look at it er , logically , I mean , for a a woman to be tied up and kept in a room , you know , and kept prisoner all her life you could hardly expect her to be sane even if she did |
| 19 | You 'd hardly expect it to rely on a laboratory analysis of the ingredients to assess the flavour . |
| 20 | So while we 're proud to offer you a capacious oven and a classic waist-level grill in a traditional freestanding cooker , we 've added contemporary benefits which make life easier , and a choice of colours — something you 'd hardly expect to find in a cooker at this price . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’ |
| 22 | The letter does not make specific the details of the matter , as one would hardly expect it to do , but Miss Kenton states unambiguously that she has now , in fact , taken the step of moving out of Mr Benn 's house in Helston and is presently lodging with an acquaintance in the nearby village of Little Compton . |
| 23 | The plan was to return to the same group of airfields , on the assumption that the garrisons would hardly expect them back quite so soon . |
| 24 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 25 | His daughter would hardly expect to stand behind the counter … |
| 26 | A woman of Daisy 's age would hardly expect to have a man invited for her , Sophia decided . |
| 27 | If the bias we have detected in broadcasting was not obvious to media specialists we can hardly expect that it would have been obvious to the general public . |
| 28 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |
| 29 | In the provinces of the empire , however , there was no choice of magistrates : the provincial governor ( or a deputy appointed by him ) heard all cases , whether they were based on the civil law or not ; and we can hardly expect that he switched from one procedure to another according to which kind of case he was hearing . |
| 30 | ‘ , ‘ Surely God can hardly expect me to … |