Example sentences of "'s hardly [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's hardly a man in England but this one to whose lure Owen would stoop now . |
| 2 | No , if they want to flush him out of hiding , there 's hardly a man they could use but Hotspur . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I see there 's hardly a day nowadays that Rose does n't go to her relations , ’ Moran said to Sheila and Mona one Saturday they brought him a flask of tea into the fields . |
| 4 | Perhaps , from those remarks , it 's hardly a question but perhaps you could just clarify |
| 5 | The hard is too slippery , and there 's hardly a blade of grass left on this one . ’ |
| 6 | When the philosopher and historian Thomas Garrigue Masaryk became the first President of the new republic of Czechoslovakia between the wars , there flew above his residence in Prague Castle a flag bearing the words Truth Prevails , and it 's hardly a coincidence that the central theme of Havel 's political writings has been ‘ To live in truth ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Your father is so proud of you , there 's hardly a customer that he has n't told about your great success . ’ |
| 8 | It 's hardly a celebration of the experimental method . |
| 9 | It 's hardly a chart career of great note is it ? |
| 10 | Ten miles to Ely , and that 's hardly a centre of riotous activity for . |
| 11 | It 's hardly a handicap at all to a dog . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's hardly a couple of inches of fat left on me . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway , it 's hardly a surprise that he 's paying us another visit , is it ? |
| 14 | It 's hardly a policy to say that they 're stating we 're intending to return the Trust to N H S when it 's never left the N H S in the first place . |
| 15 | There 's hardly a trace of it , whoops . |
| 16 | ‘ But that 's hardly a crime . ’ |
| 17 | E there 's hardly a shop ion Holyhead you can go into wh which has n't got one of my posters in it , for something or other like you know . |
| 18 | ‘ I had thought of getting a young man , ’ said Edwin , ‘ though perhaps in a way it 's hardly a job for a man . |
| 19 | Well he 's hardly a toy-boy . |
| 20 | There 's hardly a wildlife film-maker who has n't become intimately acquainted with at least one species of tick , and as ticks prefer the softer , warmer parts of the body , the acquaintance is sometimes very intimate indeed . |
| 21 | There 's hardly a waking moment when I do n't think of him , imagine what he looks like , where he is , what he 's thinking . |
| 22 | However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days . |
| 23 | I suppose I ought to organise some curtains , but I never shut them so it 's hardly a priority . |
| 24 | ‘ But even if the estate was still intact , there 's hardly a living in farming nowadays . |
| 25 | Haslemere 's hardly an evening 's drive from Weymouth . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's hardly an innovation . |
| 27 | She 's hardly the type for an old puritan like you , Karelius . |
| 28 | As one observer put it : ‘ He 's hardly the type to present wet T-shirt competitions . ’ |
| 29 | He says that the smoke is drifting through the woods , it 's hardly the type of place you 'd go for a quiet walk . |
| 30 | Birkenhead Labour MP Frank Field , chairman of the all-party Commons social security committee , said : ‘ It 's hardly the way to run a whelk stall , let alone a welfare state or country . ’ |