Example sentences of "he [was/were] hardly [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Korda may have been touted as a gifted player , but he was hardly a household name . |
| 2 | He may have been an outstanding goalkeeper but he was hardly a product of the Harvard Business School . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyway , I would have thought Souness is the wrong person to go round criticising physical play — he was hardly a wallflower as a player . |
| 4 | He was hardly a danger . |
| 5 | He was hardly the paradigm of the bookish politicians in the vein of Michael Foot or Enoch Powell . |
| 6 | We must surely conclude that when Reagan ran for national office in 1980 he was hardly the amateur in politics that his critics suggested . |
| 7 | He was not the most guilty man to pull on a navy-blue jersey , but he was hardly an angel either . |