Example sentences of "it is hardly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refering to the Archbishop of Canterbury 's recent attack on ‘ Pharisee ’ values prevalent in Britain , he said : ‘ It is hardly a Pharisee society which puts the interests of these groups at the top of its priorities . |
| 2 | ‘ It is hardly a question a sane person can answer . |
| 3 | The impulse to put safety first is understandable enough , but it is hardly a formula either for dynamism or for originality . |
| 4 | It is hardly a relaxed area of human activity . ’ |
| 5 | It is hardly a crisis . |
| 6 | The Mondays amble on , Shaun in customary pose , his expensive jacket fully fastened ( contrary to a recent report it is hardly a ‘ mail order blouson ’ — when will people finally realise that the Mondays do n't wear Joe Bloggs ? ) , hands in pockets . |
| 7 | And it is hardly a coincidence that women here are on the negative side of the comparison . |
| 8 | This circuit is meant to be adapted to your specific needs , so rather than call it ‘ The Lakeland Way ’ or anything as horrendous as that , I would rather call it something antiquated like : ‘ Notes Towards a Considered Circular Pedestrian Peregrination Amongst some of the Major Fells and Dales of the County of Cumbria ’ , but it is hardly a working title . |
| 9 | The preferential replication of genes by means of natural selection may well be a necessary condition for evolution to take place , but it is hardly a sufficient explanation for how the enormous diversity of life in space and time has come about . |
| 10 | Therefore , it is hardly a modern notion . |
| 11 | But it is hardly a rational basis for a business decision . |
| 12 | Commenting on the Labour Force Survey results , Catherine Hakim remarks : ‘ The importance of the ‘ flexible ’ sector has clearly been underestimated ; it is hardly a narrow and insignificant fringe on the edges of the labour market ’ ( ‘ Homeworking in Britain : key findings from the national survey of home-based workers ’ , Employment Gazette , February 1987 , from which all of the above relevant information has been taken ) . |
| 13 | These forms abound in serial music , but it is hardly a question of composers varying a theme , as in the old variation technique . |
| 14 | After all , it is hardly a shocking suggestion any more to propose that dialects and slangs have as much right to be " English " as the official or received version ( again , Derrida comes to mind here . ) |
| 15 | That may be an arresting statement , but it is hardly an exaggerated description of what they did . |
| 16 | It is hardly an inspired cast-list — it is characteristic that it includes no representatives from the community under investigation — but in its apparent breadth it is typical of an attitude of mind . |
| 17 | As such it is hardly an essential addition to the sum of cricket literature but it is a pleasing production nonetheless . |
| 18 | It is hardly an incentive to achieve justice or a catalyst to resolve cases speedily . |
| 19 | However , it is hardly an answer . |
| 20 | Now it can be argued that the mere collection of information about named persons is not in itself necessarily wrong ; even if it does offend against good taste — like the prying neighbour behind the lace curtains — it is hardly an area for the heavy hand of the law . |
| 21 | It is hardly an exaggeration to say that by delaying tactics the Home Office held up the legislation by more than twenty years . |
| 22 | In other ages that had been the task of the Church , and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that , for some in the 1950s , criticism was an organised religion . |