Example sentences of "[ex0] [modal v] hardly be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'll hardly be a mark . ’ |
| 2 | If the fight goes the distance , there might hardly be the thickness of a stamp between them unless Chris ups his recent workrate . |
| 3 | In these circumstances , there could hardly be a clear-cut foreign policy . |
| 4 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 5 | There could hardly be a better instance of the primacy of the written word compared with the spoken , of knowledge compared with skill . |
| 6 | There could hardly be a better time to move into insurance auditing . |
| 7 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 8 | There could hardly be a stronger contrast between this and the picture RIGHT which shows a Kirlian photograph of a healthy person 's fingertip . |
| 9 | There could hardly be a more appropriate blending of Henry II 's traditional Angevin and new English cultural backgrounds . |
| 10 | There could hardly be a better use of the building and its tradition as a ‘ laboratory of the mind ’ . |
| 11 | There could hardly be a more opportune time for attempting to salvage something for those young people who are currently gaining little if anything from the educational system . |
| 12 | There could hardly be a more fundamental demonstration of the difference between the Christian religion and Islam than the response of the Christian laity to those appalling and unthinkable attacks , which is the foundation of forgiveness in the Christian religion . |
| 13 | There could hardly be a more irrepressible pair of characters than Naevius and Cato , the creators respectively of Roman national epic and drama and of Latin literary prose . |
| 14 | It did not of course escape Mommsen that there can hardly be a more foolish political speculation , " eine thorichtere politische Spekulation " , than to represent the Roman constitution as a mixed constitution and to derive from it the success of Rome ( Rom . |
| 15 | It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , the condition is that the proper name , if it is to count as a proper name at all , must be non-descriptive , then we shall look in vain for suitable candidates , for there can hardly be an expression that communicates something and yet does not incorporate , or contextually presuppose , a descriptive content . |