Example sentences of "and it [be] hardly [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to all that the claim that Leeds has more parkland than any other city in Britain , plus a wealth of historical architecture which dates back to 1152 , and it 's hardly surprising that England 's third largest city is now fast becoming a very popular UK holiday destination . |
| 2 | Add this to the state of the economy — production down , unemployment up and interest rates still high — and it is hardly surprising that he is deeply unpopular . |
| 3 | The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity . |
| 4 | A painful mouth will never be a responsive one and it is hardly surprising that the horse will try to evade the bit . |
| 5 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 6 | These distortions are the very essence of prejudice , and it is hardly surprising that conflict with Peter had arisen . |
| 7 | It is a gradual process of which there will be intermediate phases and it is hardly surprising that in such instances we will be uncertain whether or not to admit that the infant has made the grade . |
| 8 | These permanent passes are vitally important to the security of the Empire , and it is hardly surprising that fortresses guard these strategic points . |
| 9 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |
| 10 | In ancient times this magnificent monument must have been much admired and it is hardly surprising that Imhotep was remembered as a great man and eventually became a god . |
| 11 | By the time amber had reached the head of the Adriatic it was readily accessible by sea and it is hardly surprising that Kakovatos on the west coast of the Peloponnese should have yielded the richest find of amber from this period in Greece . |
| 12 | The knights were never more than one arm of any fighting force ; and it is hardly likely that any force of knights was ever recruited entirely by ‘ feudal ’ means . |
| 13 | It was a fool 's paradise , but they were n't to know that , and it was hardly surprising that few worried much about the maintenance of British-financed production . |
| 14 | Ethel Hallow was the form sneak and goody-goody , and it was hardly surprising that Mildred felt unfriendly towards her after all the mean tricks Ethel had played during their first two terms , including almost getting Mildred expelled on two occasions . |
| 15 | An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty . |