Example sentences of "hardly [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even allowing for the subject under exposition that evening , ’ he said , ‘ I would hardly think that the two were connected . ’ |
| 2 | But they hardly suggest that a major structural change has taken place . |
| 3 | If it were not for the uninspiring mug-shots of individual candidates on the bleak official hoardings and the mercifully brief ( maximum one minute ) party political broadcasts on radio and television , one would hardly know that an election was on . |
| 4 | As Kipling complained , they hardly noticed it when it was there ; and since its conversion into a Commonwealth of Nations in 1947 , with Indian independence , they have hardly noticed that a Commonwealth is not the same thing . |
| 5 | I can hardly see that a mere frigate is going to inconvenience you to all that extent . |
| 6 | Her face was hurting badly where Duvall had hit her , and she could hardly believe that a dream could be so realistic . |
| 7 | You can hardly believe that a few stretchsuits and some nappies can possibly cost as much as they say , but nine months and a lot of shopping trips later , you will have been forced to accept that your new addition has managed to tip the scales severely in the debit direction . |
| 8 | Some part of Sisson 's censures must surely be conceded : whatever esteem we have and should have for Gavin Douglas 's translation of the Aeneid , we can hardly believe that the Philadelphian Ezra Pound was any more at ease than most of us with Bishop Douglas 's sixteenth-century Scots . |
| 9 | Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education . |
| 10 | In the case of many British statistics of populations one can hardly say that the Registrar-General himself is the writer . |
| 11 | The Waste Land hardly suggests that the inhabitants of the twentieth-century city are conscious actors in fertility rites , but since these , long forgotten , underlie our behaviour , since the ‘ sexual instinct ’ plays a role in ‘ the religion and mythology of primitive peoples ( indeed in all religion ) ’ , and since Christianity and primitive ritual are linked , the poem expresses despair at the change and decay not only of city churches which Eliot visited at this time , but of all belief . |