Example sentences of "[conj] hardly " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its best it leads to the best sort of poster — those for Guinness , Polo , Benson & Hedges — where hardly any words are needed . |
| 2 | The formal definitions of the Aristotelians are either unattainable , or hardly serve their intended purpose . |
| 3 | The recession has left many folk unable , or hardly able , to meet payments on a first home , let alone a second . |
| 4 | Plodding upwards , looking straight ahead of me or hardly looking at all , I was conscious suddenly of something on either side , looked to the right and the left . |
| 5 | The doctrine is , I take it , one from which a modern theorist can hardly escape , or hardly wishes to . |
| 6 | But you may have to think hard and long and reject many ideas that seemed promising before arriving at an ending to your book that is at once what everyone all along expected and what no one , or hardly anyone , thought would happen in that way . |
| 7 | In the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes he stated : ‘ The subject no longer matters , or hardly matters . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Look , look , my mother 's ghost ! ’ cried Apricot , pointing , though there was nothing there , or hardly anything , just a warning shimmer in the air outside Rhoda 's bedroom . |
| 9 | And I expect that same thing happens with the work related one , that because you 're never at work on your own , or hardly ever at work on your own , and the same thing when you started , you were n't ever on your own , you could say to people , am I doing it right . |
| 10 | It was criticized by John Evelyn [ q.v. ] , visiting in 1670 , as ‘ mean enough ’ , apart from the cellars , ‘ & hardly capable for a hunting house ’ . |
| 11 | And we both knew that hardly anyone would be prepared to speak out and argue my case . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The wind came in tiny puffs that hardly stirred the sea 's surface . |
| 17 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He would n't even mind that hardly anyone goes to church at Christmas . |
| 24 | It would have a consequence for Jack Stone that hardly bore thinking about . |
| 25 | He was wearing a translucent gossamer painglove that hardly anyone else could see . |
| 26 | ‘ She certainly is , ’ he said in a voice that hardly quavered at all . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | er and it 's written in a language that hardly anybody can understand anyway . |