Example sentences of "this [be] hardly [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is hardly a fair comparison . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is hardly a climate in which educational innovation could flourish . |
| 4 | The usual gibes about ‘ Romantic imprecision ’ have no weight here , but then this is hardly a Romantic poem . |
| 5 | This is hardly a description , however , of the Marxist method . |
| 6 | This is hardly a stream of invective and obscenity but it 's a long way from the stuffed shirt formality of the '50s interviews . |
| 7 | Unfortunately this is hardly a realistic option in most aquariums and would also kill all of the other live forms on the rock and disrupt other invertebrates in the process . |
| 8 | This is hardly a feminist revolution . |
| 9 | From the wave point of view this is hardly a surprise , because it was just they component of the oscillation which got through . |
| 10 | The result is not quite organic movement nor is the pace quite lifelike ; but since ED 209 is a machine , and increasingly a comic one at that , this is hardly a problem . |
| 11 | The documents here are proposed for use not as a sword but as a shield ; this is hardly a floodgate situation . |
| 12 | ‘ This is hardly a normal time . |
| 13 | ‘ Now this is hardly a courteous way to welcome visitors to your city . |
| 14 | This is hardly a satisfactory conclusion and not one seriously intended by the doctrine itself . |
| 15 | This is hardly a characteristic of freer trade in goods . |
| 16 | It is , therefore , possible by sheer verbosity to defeat the operation of the rule ; but this is hardly a method to be recommended . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | This is hardly an attitude which is conducive to a principled development of pedagogic thinking . |
| 21 | This is hardly an optimistic conclusion either , since the problem remains of how such equality is to be created if not by elected government itself . |
| 22 | Yet this is hardly an area where judicial pronouncements have been lacking . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ But this is hardly the time or the place … ’ |
| 25 | This is hardly the best example to set to an electorate that is constantly being urged to display pay and other financial restraints . |
| 26 | Although this is hardly the headhunter 's fault , the candidate will naturally feel annoyance or even anger that his or her expectations have been raised and then dashed , often without much explanation . |
| 27 | This is hardly the best of reasons for planting , and not the right attitude . |
| 28 | That is why we think this is hardly the most opportune moment for IBM to wield the weapon of ad hoc pricing . |
| 29 | This is hardly the place to set out any argument to the contrary in detail , but attention should be drawn to the nearby temple , the altars , the cult-figures , the so-called nymphaeum and Christian monograms carved on its stone surround . |
| 30 | This is hardly the first time that Britain has enraged Brussels by attempting to wriggle out of European environmental legislation . |