Example sentences of "[be] hardly more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diderot is hardly more than a name . |
| 2 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
| 3 | The moon was hardly more than a pale sliver , and surely not enough to see by . |
| 4 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 5 | The inquest was hardly more than a formality , the verdict an inevitability . |
| 6 | A diplomat who spent most of his working life in foreign capitals could easily feel himself part of an aristocratic international to which national feeling was hardly more than a vulgar plebeian prejudice . |