Example sentences of "we can hardly [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own father , Charles the Cheesemonger , was neither a cardmaker nor a pauper , and we can hardly suppose that any loss of common rights through enclosures had had any direct impact upon his family as it had upon so many others . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some part of Sisson 's censures must surely be conceded : whatever esteem we have and should have for Gavin Douglas 's translation of the Aeneid , we can hardly believe that the Philadelphian Ezra Pound was any more at ease than most of us with Bishop Douglas 's sixteenth-century Scots . |
| 5 | If he makes no will we can hardly say that there is in early times any common law as to how his goods shall be divided ; much or all will depend on local custom . |
| 6 | We can hardly deny that " existence predicates " carry a logically independent descriptive content without being prepared to say the same of " truth-predicates " . |