Example sentences of "[that] hardly " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we both knew that hardly anyone would be prepared to speak out and argue my case . |
| 2 | If disputes within the party over policy and doctrine were one symptom of Conservative confusion , another was the ‘ legion of leagues ’ which appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when it seemed that hardly a year went by without the founding of some new right-wing association . |
| 3 | There are several clumps of the non-climbing spring sweet pea Lathyrus vernus ‘ that hardly anybody grows ’ : it has small purple and blue flowers and helps to fill out the border . |
| 4 | In the present context , what is significant , if not altogether surprising , is that hardly a speech or publication went by between 1920 and 1922 without the most concentrated vitriol being poured upon the Jews . |
| 5 | A presidential authorization for a covert operation , a ‘ mini-finding ’ , was rushed out at the end of November , so secretly that hardly anyone knew of it ; this made good what had happened already , which was not supposed to have happened at all . |
| 6 | The wind came in tiny puffs that hardly stirred the sea 's surface . |
| 7 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 8 | And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were . |
| 9 | A second group is at the opposite extreme of breakage , with no mandibles intact , and this includes the mammalian carnivores , the little owl and most of the diurnal raptors not included in the main analysis ( not included because the damage is so great that hardly any recognizable bone is left in the pellets : see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 10 | All that is to be hoped is that individual fellows of the society will use this report to press , alongside others less privileged , for an openness , a democracy that hardly distinguishes the Royal Society itself . |
| 11 | Funnily enough , it 's an album that hardly anyone seems to have heard of , apart from the real Fleetwood Mac enthusiasts — perhaps it 's because it does n't have any of the famous tracks on it . |
| 12 | Incidentally , only banks A to F can be accessed without some form of MIDI control , but with sixty possible selections that hardly leaves the user struggling for memory space . |
| 13 | He would n't even mind that hardly anyone goes to church at Christmas . |
| 14 | It would have a consequence for Jack Stone that hardly bore thinking about . |
| 15 | He was wearing a translucent gossamer painglove that hardly anyone else could see . |
| 16 | ‘ She certainly is , ’ he said in a voice that hardly quavered at all . |
| 17 | Shortly before ten o'clock in the morning , the Angelina , almost slack-sailed and ghosting along under a Meltemi that hardly rated as a zephyr , tied up along the starboard side of the Ariadne . |
| 18 | A later Murdoch novel , The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , explores in the same unblinking fashion an aspect of human selfhood from another angle : its ageing hero , living cheerfully for himself and cooking dishes that hardly anyone else would want to eat , suddenly rediscovers a lost love , is deranged enough to kidnap her , fails to regain her love in captivity and is forced to accept , by the end , that his old self-sufficient life is all there is or can ever be . |
| 19 | Appropriately the imminent passage of the emancipation legislation at the end of Wilberforce 's life provoked in him feelings so strong that he wrote ‘ I have not time to open the Stopper of ye jar that hardly prevents the bursting forth of my [ joyful ? ] feelings abt . |
| 20 | er and it 's written in a language that hardly anybody can understand anyway . |
| 21 | Another example is the village of Clyst St Mary in Devon ( figure 7.3 ) where prior to 1914 there were only 50 houses , a number that hardly changed in the interwar years . |
| 22 | ‘ Ironically , it is an image of a certain British establishment that hardly exists any more . |
| 23 | There was no reason why this man should n't be out on the moor on a fine spring night , except that hardly anyone but Stephen ever was . |
| 24 | ROS : To sum up : your father , whom you love , dies , you are his heir , you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped on to this throne and into his sheets , thereby offending both legal and natural practice . |
| 25 | With a watertight plot that hardly suffers from its patent simplicity and loose , game playing by its stars , The Freshman manages to repel the cynicism such contrived exercises invite . |
| 26 | The same writer also states : " The Bishop of Rochester remained at Hailing and Trottescliffe , where he conferred orders in both places and at certain intervals , " he continues , " this mortality swept away so vast a multitude of both sexes that none could be found to carry the corpses to the grave , men and women bore their own offspring to the Church and cast them into a common pit , and from these pits came such a great stench that hardly anyone dared cross the cemeteries . " |
| 27 | Julius had told her that hardly anyone knew he owned this house . |
| 28 | He said something like ‘ Those of you who are familiar with the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome ’ , and it turned out that hardly anybody was . |
| 29 | I really must watch what I say — he has a mind like a knife ; but aloud she said , doing her best to look distressed , ‘ Oh , he had a run of bad luck — ’ an explanation that hardly seemed to convince her hearer . |
| 30 | Spenser is arguing from the specific perspective of a militant Protestant New English settler in Ireland and that hardly makes him a typical Elizabethan . |