The phrase "can hardly be found" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to express that something is very difficult to find or is almost impossible to find. Example: "The perfect gift for my mother can hardly be found at the mall. I might have to search online for a unique present."
Literature can hardly be found on the effect of post-curing parameters on the performance of graphene reinforced nanocomposites.
But then a director can hardly be found, and even if he could, as matters now stand, the students, who are very conceited, would not attend to him.
Amid this turmoil, there can hardly be found a "Turkish government," let alone one that would "order" the execution of Armenian civilians.
Exact modeling of systems containing such components usually leads to sophisticated differential equations of which analytic solutions can hardly be found, or cannot be computed in many cases.
The topic constitutes an open issue of debate among the scientific and industrial community, as clear indications on the real RSTP performance for network recovery can hardly be found in the literature.
In his 1959 book Experiencing Architecture, the London-loving Danish architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen wrote that "the Londoner calls his sidewalk the 'pavement' and a more cultivated example of paving can hardly be found".
If we could only find a fossil ape who had developed trousers, or a fossil man with an evident and respectable tail, the Darwinian theory would receive very strong confirmation...The joy with which Darwinians will learn that the missing link has at last been found can hardly be overestimated.
A CHINESE man who killed six unarmed police officers in Shanghai can hardly be surprised to find himself on death row.
One German chief executive complains that the chancellor ignored structural reform when she had a business-friendly partner in the Free Democrats, and frets that she can hardly be expected to find new courage with the SPD.A lobbyist for another big company says that with the Free Democrats "you didn't need an interpreter" to explain industry's concerns to the government, but now he fears he will.
Thus, occurrence of mutations in samples analysed in our study can hardly be compared with incidences found by other investigators (Mulcahy et al, 1998; Castells et al, 1999; Dianxu et al, 2002; Maire et al, 2002).
