Example sentences of "he was hardly [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet he was hardly a budding saint and his success made him unpopular with both masters and boys . |
2 | He may have been an outstanding goalkeeper but he was hardly a product of the Harvard Business School . |
3 | ‘ Anyway , I would have thought Souness is the wrong person to go round criticising physical play — he was hardly a wallflower as a player . |
4 | He was hardly a danger . |
5 | Korda may have been touted as a gifted player , but he was hardly a household name . |
6 | He was hardly a popular man with any of w . ’ |
7 | He was hardly the paradigm of the bookish politicians in the vein of Michael Foot or Enoch Powell . |
8 | We must surely conclude that when Reagan ran for national office in 1980 he was hardly the amateur in politics that his critics suggested . |
9 | But he was hardly the first good-looking man she 'd had dinner with . |
10 | He was not the most guilty man to pull on a navy-blue jersey , but he was hardly an angel either . |