Example sentences of "there [is] hardly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see there 's hardly a day nowadays that Rose does n't go to her relations , ’ Moran said to Sheila and Mona one Saturday they brought him a flask of tea into the fields . |
| 2 | There 's hardly a waking moment when I do n't think of him , imagine what he looks like , where he is , what he 's thinking . |
| 3 | ‘ Your father is so proud of you , there 's hardly a customer that he has n't told about your great success . ’ |
| 4 | There 's hardly a single scrap that ca n't be re-cycled . |
| 5 | ‘ But even if the estate was still intact , there 's hardly a living in farming nowadays . |
| 6 | There 's hardly a wildlife film-maker who has n't become intimately acquainted with at least one species of tick , and as ticks prefer the softer , warmer parts of the body , the acquaintance is sometimes very intimate indeed . |
| 7 | E there 's hardly a shop ion Holyhead you can go into wh which has n't got one of my posters in it , for something or other like you know . |
| 8 | There 's hardly a man in England but this one to whose lure Owen would stoop now . |
| 9 | No , if they want to flush him out of hiding , there 's hardly a man they could use but Hotspur . ’ |
| 10 | However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days . |
| 11 | The hard is too slippery , and there 's hardly a blade of grass left on this one . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There 's hardly a couple of inches of fat left on me . ’ |
| 13 | There 's hardly a trace of it , whoops . |
| 14 | That is to say there 's hardly a well known poet in England now who does n't go round reading his work on various public occasions . |
| 15 | ‘ There is hardly a civilised Fisheries Department in the world that would not ban this sloppy , terrible method of fishing if the politicians would show some backbone . ’ |
| 16 | There is hardly a public library in the country which does not have , under one heading or another , a ‘ local studies ’ section , and these are vital sources to the student of local history . |
| 17 | There is hardly a protuberance to disturb the airflow , save for two half-pear-shaped castings ( the step to wither wingwalk , ) , and small pairs of lifting handles by the tailplane and just aft of the cabin for the purpose of getting in . |
| 18 | J. H. Eaton , a magistrate , declared : ‘ It almost goes without saying that there is hardly a case that comes before our courts , to which the natives are parties , in which this crime [ perjury ] is not more or less freely indulged . ’ |
| 19 | There is hardly a mainstream sport in this country controlled by people who know what they are doing . |
| 20 | The LTA is operating in what is today a very professional tennis world , yet on all the LTA 's innumerable committees , there is hardly a single person who has had personal experience of playing top class international tennis at the highest level since the game went ‘ Open ’ in 1968 . |
| 21 | Since there is hardly a Salisbury parish without its retired military man , they form a significant diocesan presence . |
| 22 | There is hardly a spadeful of soil anywhere in the world that does not contain some of them . |
| 23 | This may well be possible : there is hardly a field of study in which computers do not have a valuable role to play . |
| 24 | But as the men in suits — the politicians — give way to the men in the studios — the experts — it seems too obvious even to mention the fact that these days there is hardly a woman 's face to be seen on television . |
| 25 | There is hardly a treasure hunter anywhere in the world who has not heard of Charles Garrett , read at least one of his numerous books on the subject , or at one time or another used one of his metal detectors . |
| 26 | Branding has grown enormously during this century , and there is hardly a product in the Western world which does not have a brand name or designation of some kind . |
| 27 | There is hardly a factory in existence which does not have a jobbing department somewhere or other . |
| 28 | Typically , however , there is hardly a word in all the reviews on the labours of Mrs Gould , or on the revolutionary influence of Edward Lear . |
| 29 | Here it is universal ; there is hardly a servant anywhere who is not Irish |
| 30 | There is hardly an occasion on which the government proposes when the opposition does not have an opportunity to oppose . |