Example sentences of "[vb past] hardly [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. L. Smith , chairman of the Adult Education Committee at the Ministry of Reconstruction , also warned : ‘ If industrial moral and social side must be taken up in a way that had hardly been experimented upon as yet … |
| 2 | That was built by Hitler and , by the look of it , long stretches of its concrete had hardly been touched since . |
| 3 | There was some dissatisfaction with the curriculum , which had hardly been touched by the modernisation drive . |
| 4 | " Working class " is anachronistic in implying a stage in class formation and consciousness which had hardly been reached even by 1815 . |
| 5 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 6 | The adulation when it was all over was something that had hardly been seen before in England , even on momentous Ashes-winning occasions , and early in 1964 his efforts were rewarded with a knighthood , conferred by the Queen at Buckingham Palace . |
| 7 | The second thing Artemis remembered was being put to bed very early , so early that tea had hardly been cleared . |
| 8 | For example , medicine ran to 80 pages , whereas the schedule for chemical technology had hardly been modified since the second edition . |
| 9 | The steady growth of the grip of family members on so many walks of life had a stifling effect on initiative , which had hardly been encouraged before 1965 . |
| 10 | Her attraction to him had hardly been swathed in subtlety . |