Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] hardly a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was hardly a workaholic when we were together in Seville . ’ |
| 2 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 3 | This is not surprising : the Cubans had obtained a useful economic agreement from the Soviet Union , but it was hardly a substantial enough commitment to warrant precipitating an open break with the United States by resuming relations with the USSR . |
| 4 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 5 | It was hardly a wholesome scene . |
| 6 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal confirmed that the defence of provocation was unavailable ; even if D had lost his self-control at the time , it was hardly a sudden and temporary response to an act of the deceased , who was asleep when D struck him . |
| 8 | It was hardly a parliamentary situation with the executive totally dominant , but it was a striking change from what had gone before . |
| 9 | It was hardly a hazardous undertaking . |
| 10 | It was hardly a convenient location for either . |
| 11 | It was hardly an equal contest . |
| 12 | Yet he was hardly a budding saint and his success made him unpopular with both masters and boys . |
| 13 | He was hardly a popular man with any of w . ’ |