Example sentences of "was hardly [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing much had happened in my life since the publication of my Carlo Fontana book nearly twenty years earlier ( though even that , as only three hundred copies were sold , was hardly a riot ) . |
| 2 | McNeill signed ‘ Jacki ’ for £650,000 , largely on the strength of personal recommendation and video evidence , but it was hardly a shot in the dark . |
| 3 | The third National Government , after the resignation of the Liberal ministers , was hardly a coalition — although again Marquand shows that the non-Conservatives retained more influence upon it than their numbers alone would suggest . |
| 4 | We got very good but there was hardly a week when some of us was n't killed . |
| 5 | There was hardly a summer that three or four were n't drownded . ’ |
| 6 | The annual rowing contest between the two ancient universities was a great London event with many ordinary families taking sides and wearing favours but it was hardly a matter of ‘ national ’ concern until the BBC included the Boat Race in the select band of truly British events . |
| 7 | His sins of micro-commission were small ; and the macro thing he did not do was hardly a new failure . |
| 8 | Yet he was hardly a budding saint and his success made him unpopular with both masters and boys . |
| 9 | That , gentle people , was hardly a day at the beach . |
| 10 | I heard of it indirectly , and from different sources : ‘ even the telephone torn from its moorings ! ’ , ‘ chamber-pots smashed , windows smashed , doors kicked in ! ’ , ‘ things thrown about , things broken , things taken away — there was hardly a house in the village that did not get something ! ’ |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal confirmed that the defence of provocation was unavailable ; even if D had lost his self-control at the time , it was hardly a sudden and temporary response to an act of the deceased , who was asleep when D struck him . |
| 12 | It was hardly a statement in the highest traditions of scientific objectivity . |
| 13 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 14 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 15 | This new position was achieved only as a result of continuous warfare ; there was hardly a year in the third century that did not see the Roman army engaged in some campaign . |
| 16 | And Charlie was alleged to have told reporters : ‘ It was hardly a turn-on . ’ |
| 17 | Youth itself was hardly a disadvantage , in an age when people were ruling kingdoms and leading armies in their teens ; the Stewart kings themselves , all but one beginning his personal rule in his teens , two dead at thirty , and only one surviving beyond the age of forty , could hardly have waited for age and experience to bless their undertakings and achievements . |
| 18 | His introduction to the art of place-kicking , however , was hardly a result of deep forward planning . |
| 19 | This was hardly a welcome dowry for the investors that the government wanted to attract into a newly privatised industry . |
| 20 | ‘ Europe ’ was hardly a realistic principle , and Adenauer 's policy was decidedly pro-Atlantic and Western . |
| 21 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 22 | It was hardly a success as he channelled most of his energies into drumming with local groups . |
| 23 | To keep a pony in the middle of a town , and keep him fit , was hard work , as he had to be exercised every day , and the surrounding neighbourhood was hardly a horseman 's paradise . |
| 24 | He may have been an outstanding goalkeeper but he was hardly a product of the Harvard Business School . |
| 25 | Despite the high praise lavished on Whittingham by Norman Bentwich , among others ( he called it ‘ the most romantic of the agricultural centres ’ ) , it was hardly a success story either for Youth Allyah or the RCM . |
| 26 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |
| 27 | The theme of the poems was hardly a happy one ; Coleridge was now frequently ill with complaints which , though genuine enough , must surely have been complicated by psychosomatic factors . |
| 28 | It was hardly a situation conducive to producing a relaxed and committed rugby player , just newly married . |
| 29 | There was hardly a battle , though , for when the king 's artillery fired , the Lancastrians fled , apparently throwing aside their coats to aid their retreat , thereby giving the battle its name . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , I would have thought Souness is the wrong person to go round criticising physical play — he was hardly a wallflower as a player . |