Example sentences of "is hardly [adj] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Given the parliamentary situation which existed , when Labour governments were minority ones in the House of Commons , and when the National government could not seriously be challenged in the 1930s , it is hardly surprising that working-class protest exerted a marginal impact upon the distribution of wealth and income in Britain . |
| 32 | It is hardly surprising that special procedures have been devised to make provision for claims of this size , and that the way in which the county court handles such claims has been the subject of close scrutiny and criticism , not least during the recent Civil Justice Review . |
| 33 | The knights were never more than one arm of any fighting force ; and it is hardly likely that any force of knights was ever recruited entirely by ‘ feudal ’ means . |
| 34 | It is hardly likely that this could have been true of the greatest of them , Whittington , because his father had died with his estate encumbered by an outlawry incurred in a plea of debt . |