Example sentences of "[noun sg] was hardly [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He could meet the woman in the shop , pass through the curtain in the back make sure her husband was out , and fuck her , that 's what was being asked of him ; then help her , drop a word in the police chief 's ear , shrug his shoulders and wave his hands at the severity of the charges , promise on his professional honour that such a boy was hardly a threat . |
| 3 | And the former British No 1 , who treads the boards as Cinderella in Norwich next month , was the first to confess her return to competitive tennis was hardly the stuff of fairy tales . |
| 4 | ‘ But the middle of a courtroom in front of a judge was hardly the time or the place . ’ |
| 5 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 6 | But Luke 's room was hardly a place to convalesce . |
| 7 | Though back was hardly the word since she had dropped her English origins , as so many other things , along the littered roadway of her life . |
| 8 | Dull , physically unattractive and solidly Germanic , the new king was hardly the sovereign to arouse his subjects ' patriotic enthusiasm , and that in the opening years of his reign no invasion attempt occurred was due largely to his chief minister , the all-powerful Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 9 | But as he was brought in six months later when Curzon died , age was hardly a reason for excluding him from an office without portfolio in 1924 . |
| 10 | He must have suspected that his all British commission was hardly the kind of body that Kenyans either needed or were likely to listen to in 1972 . |
| 11 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 12 | Frustration was hardly the word for it ! |
| 13 | If she was trying to impress Luke with her willingness to play by his rules , acting like a jealous child over what was undoubtedly a business phone call was hardly the way to begin . |
| 14 | Although as Eleanor Gordon has remarked , the family wage was hardly a reality for most Scottish working-class families , its notional existence had an impact on wages paid to women : if the normal " women 's wage " was low , employers taking on women for newly created jobs were unlikely to look to the male rate as a guide . |
| 15 | But now he could see that the thing was hardly a threat . |
| 16 | Portia 's father was an ambassador and the family had lived in Nigeria , China and Washington — places where scheming was hardly a novelty . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , somehow Rogers and Thomas got the message across that TB was hardly the scourge it once had been and there was really no reason not to laugh at those who were generally prepared to laugh at themselves , although there were serious moments too . |
| 18 | At 5′ 7″ , Tribe was hardly a size to threaten anyone . |
| 19 | He was a tall thin irritable-looking man in his early forties , who had the idea that he could not ‘ take ’ restaurant food , at least of the kind served in the restaurants where the rest of the staff had their midday meal — luncheon was hardly the word for it — and therefore always brought a packed meal with him . |