Example sentences of "this [is] hardly " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is hardly the sort of catchy title guaranteed to get most of us rushing to our desks in search of pen and paper , nor is it easy to imagine squeezing into packed village halls to listen to speeches demanding a rewrite of the rules on deferred taxation . |
| 2 | This is hardly surprising as establishing new artists is a costly and lengthy process . |
| 3 | This is hardly an average reaction to the piece , but the despairing Eliot was using Stravinsky 's music to underpin his own endeavours in The Waste Land . |
| 4 | This is hardly surprising , since its gestation period comprised the years in which Eliot was working on the Notes . |
| 5 | This is hardly surprising . |
| 6 | This is hardly a fair comparison . |
| 7 | Still , this is hardly unusual or unique to the Free Church . |
| 8 | In the case of the death of a child this is hardly ever the case . |
| 9 | But this is hardly a convincing argument when produced by an organisation that collects some £130 million , even if it also proposes to give those of its members whose works are performed outside ‘ significant venues ’ a flat fee of £75 a year . |
| 10 | This is hardly likely to be repeated in the developing countries . |
| 11 | Given that the main impetus behind EMU is the desire of the French to get a seat on the Bundesbank , and given the fact that the Germans hold all the aces , this is hardly surprising . |
| 12 | At least one of these has the question ‘ Please list your child 's defects ’ , this is hardly an example of the most tactful use of language ! |
| 13 | ‘ But this is hardly the time or the place … ’ |
| 14 | The southern coast of Crete fringes the Libyan Sea , so this is hardly surprising . |
| 15 | Thank God for Handel , I thought , with four sea-trout weighing 10lb : ‘ Come on Alan , ’ I said , ‘ this is hardly fair . |
| 16 | But this is hardly an effective safeguard : how much serious consideration can be given by a Minister absent from his office , engaged in pressing matters of state ? |
| 17 | This is hardly a climate in which educational innovation could flourish . |
| 18 | Given that the remotely sensed data add a great deal of information to these processes this is hardly surprising , but this general approach is relatively easy to carry out in a GIS environment . |
| 19 | For a woman who still wants an active sex life , this is hardly satisfactory . |
| 20 | All this is hardly Culver 's fault . |
| 21 | But Shallis argues that this is hardly surprising , because its very terms of thought are such as to exclude it from the content of all discussion , at the very outset . |
| 22 | This is hardly surprising since one of the major activities of childhood is coming to terms with emotions , managing emotions , and establishing to what extent our own society , community , or family finds the display of emotions acceptable . |
| 23 | There never have been any economic or social targets , but given the attitude of government over the first seven years of the LDDC this is hardly surprising . |
| 24 | This is hardly surprising as it takes a very buoyant personality indeed to cope with what appears to be constant rejection . |
| 25 | This is hardly surprising , since the minimap of the British Isles in question measures one inch by an inch-and-a-half and the circle denoting the airfield is more than 40 nm in diameter in scale . |
| 26 | This is hardly surprising as there is no real escape from such irritations in the confines of the aquarium . |
| 27 | He is indeed ‘ the most political of all our poets ’ and this is hardly surprising when we remember that he grew up in an age of Revolution . |
| 28 | The usual gibes about ‘ Romantic imprecision ’ have no weight here , but then this is hardly a Romantic poem . |
| 29 | This is hardly the best example to set to an electorate that is constantly being urged to display pay and other financial restraints . |
| 30 | This is hardly an attitude which is conducive to a principled development of pedagogic thinking . |