Example sentences of "[noun] [is] hardly " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Testament is hardly unequivocal on this matter . |
| 2 | The richness of personal awareness of God in the Old Testament is hardly better seen than through the wealth of metaphors for the God who was known and loved in daily life : |
| 3 | It could have been , he argued onwards , a fort , or even an early Christian site , or even a pagan place of votive offering , ‘ for there is such a multitude of divinities , to whom it may have been dedicated , that the chance of its being a temple of Anaitis is hardly any thing . |
| 4 | But such loss is hardly surprising — the samples were 200 m from the reactor core but only 50 m from a major intrusion of volcanic rocks , which have been separately dated to 750 ± 150 million years ago . |
| 5 | And at the pit camp the loss is hardly being faced at all . |
| 6 | As for being free — to be in thrall to a ruling obsession is hardly to exist in a state of freedom . |
| 7 | Even they know that the way they 've been running the club is hardly likely to gain them a good press . |
| 8 | ‘ At international level coaching is hardly required . |
| 9 | The income from lambs , a few older sheep and wool is hardly enough to pay the wages for a shepherd . |
| 10 | Warnie said that there was room only for a clear cut division of opinion — if one is a Catholic , the aumbry contains Our Lord and of course even prostration is hardly reverence enough : but if one is Church of England , it contains but a wafer and a little wine , and why in front of that should one show any greater reverence than in any other part of the church ? … |
| 11 | ‘ And midsummer is hardly past . |
| 12 | Lucy 's hardly met you , has she ? ’ |
| 13 | That there should be a link between ( a ) unemployment and ( b ) relative poverty , and crime is hardly surprising . |
| 14 | Please get your branch to buy a copy , ten pound is hardly any money at all from branch funds , so that you push this round and get it shown . |
| 15 | IntelliDraw is hardly a low-end application , but it 's difficult to place because it 's the result of some brave lateral thinking about how people use images in practical circumstances . |
| 16 | Butler 's famous refutation of egoism is hardly conclusive . |
| 17 | With just one MP , Labour is hardly a political force to be reckoned with . |
| 18 | It blinds the eyes of contemporaries with clouds of smoke ; but it docs not endure , and its flame is hardly visible . ’ |
| 19 | However , he stresses that denetting is simply a form of price promotion : ‘ A price promotion selling more books is hardly surprising . ’ |
| 20 | A citizen is hardly encouraged to do his civic duty as he sees it if he is guilty of committing an offence should events backfire on him . |
| 21 | Now , assuming they 're true , Blufton is hardly going to shop a drug smuggling ring he 's in on , so it 's safe to assume Nicola had another source of information . |
| 22 | A system that forces some into the worst schools is hardly one that meets the canons of social justice with which we began this article . |
| 23 | But I 'm afraid this stupid bug is hardly an aphrodisiac . |
| 24 | On both counts , the outlook is hardly promising . |
| 25 | So the Sun is hardly average . |
| 26 | I would suggest , however , that breeding 10 neons is hardly a success , as with soft water he would probably have had 100+ fry . |
| 27 | But this usually means the power amp is hardly ticking over in and so the resulting distortion is rarely fully representative of what the amp can do at full throttle . |
| 28 | Other may sit there stubbornly waiting for you to tell them what they are meant to do whilst making it abundantly clear that the session is hardly welcome , indeed is being conducted almost under duress . |
| 29 | This act is hardly likely to have endeared the chiefs to the Roman cause , especially if all the money had been spent , and could have been a deciding factor in the hardening of the changing attitudes in some of the royal households . |
| 30 | England is hardly in a position to handle built-in problems with new and future housing stock . |