A fluent winner of a modest maiden race at Beverley last time, Caracara could hardly have scored with more authority. |
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Capable but hardly outstanding qawwals, these two, and Sparkes ain't at his best either, amounting to a less than inspired album. |
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Such examples are, I grant you, hardly within the bounds of the unspoken gentlemanly code of the angler. |
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I hardly recognized my little cousin when the two of them came back from Springfield. |
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It might seem natural that merriment goes with wealth beyond the dreams of avarice but that, when you think about it, is hardly ever the case. |
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In a zero-sum budgetary game, welfare can hardly yield its share, while defense can do some. |
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I stare out the window, hardly recognizing our own house as Sam pulls into the garage. |
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Cherokee stalls have long been notable for their supremely gentle nature, sometimes, hardly a stall at all. |
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When I did about 30 flights in a row while backpacking in my early twenties, I hardly ever bothered to lock my bags. |
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Since you can give yourself one by walking in to a door, it hardly betokens animal savagery. |
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They both were dressed like fashion models and wore so much makeup you hardly recognized them. |
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I'm hardly an authority on saints, or irony, but am I right in thinking that, before he got religion, St. Andrew was a Middle Eastern fisherman? |
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I thought they would hardly do that, but anyway, we had to go back to the lame architect party with our tails between our legs! |
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You can hardly enter or leave the Royal Garden Plaza without tripping over someone's junk or having useless articles thrust into your face. |
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In fact, my house actually backed onto their fields where I walked my dog every day, so it was hardly a trip into the unknown. |
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The buildings, lights and other images are hardly recognizable in her works. |
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A venue as extraordinary as Kingston's Toilet Gallery could hardly celebrate its birthday in a conventional manner. |
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My own personal wife and I hardly ever bill and coo early in the morning any more. |
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A democrat can hardly object if the people believe that they should restrain themselves by using the courts. |
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Having expended large amounts of money on multiculturalism, they are hardly likely to criticise it. |
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He has been a dedicated member, who hardly missed a rehearsal and took part in trips abroad and Saddleworth's famous Whit Friday band contest. |
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A cloying Riverside surface hardly explained the endless procession of misplaced passes, unimaginative runs and poor first touches. |
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My sister is quick to call somebody a friend, even somebody she hardly knows, if it suits her book. |
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Yet rent control discourages private investment in low-cost housing, hardly a boon to the poor. |
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This was hardly the time to bring out an issue on love, when the young are busy preparing for exams. |
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And while over-consumption is hardly new in the land of the free, marketers are increasingly targeting children. |
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The final release of the game is hardly better than the leaked alpha, which they said was nothing but a rough version, that needed polishing. |
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However, such a complex formula would hardly be of practical use for analysing measured pressure relaxation curves. |
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Then there's about a million boxes to fill in, but hardly any of them apply to me. |
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Connor, resplendent in blue overcoat and black flat cap, hardly stood still. |
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Contrary to their claims, these writers are hardly courageous Jeremiahs crying out an unwelcome doctrine to rootless and anomic individuals. |
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Hunched over his acoustic guitar in a shabby Los Angeles nightclub, he hardly looks like Hollywood's newest sensation. |
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That very real risk hardly seems worth taking to gain the questionable benefits of dulling the Fed's razor-like focus on rates. |
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It would hardly be worth a full column to focus on his association's recidivist ideas, but this study is an all-time low. |
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Then again there's another 10 months to go so it's hardly down to the wire! |
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As an introduction to the exciting variety of African writing that is being produced now, this collection could hardly be bettered. |
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Given the lurid colour of road safety cameras, they are hardly a stealth tax! |
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Often I'd look at some other members and think you're not shy, you're not backward in the same way I am, some of you hardly ever shut up. |
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You would hardly say they were guilty of professional misconduct, would you, because they were there as a group of lawyers? |
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In both cases, apology hardly compensates for the manifest evidence as to the scale of one's ineptitude. |
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All this time, Brooks moans and whines, but he is inspired without hardly realizing it. |
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And I'm betrothed to a man I hardly know and I'll have to go away and live with him in a land full of strangers. |
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He hardly noticed the manacles because there across from him, only separated by a bit of glass, was his father's familiar face. |
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If you travelled back in time two centuries on Christmas Day, you'd hardly recognise the festive season. |
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That's hardly a shining reason for the Yanks to spend resources for such a minor gain. |
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But what about those days when cold fingers or a hangover mean you hardly recognise your own signature? |
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A chastened Black has promised that the money will be paid back with interest, but that is hardly the point. |
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His admission that there is still a doubt to be resolved is hardly likely to reassure the sceptics. |
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Rannie came by to check on me, but I was feeling so bad I hardly said anything to him. |
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The gowns my mother had sewn for me are hardly suited for Christopher's home. |
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A leader emboldened by four more years, with a greater mandate, is hardly likely to pull in his horns. |
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That's hardly fair, as Google is a profitable advertising broker that makes real money, not funny money. |
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He hardly ever went outside except to get the newspaper and, once in a blue moon, mow the lawn, and so his skin was milk-white and blue-veined. |
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It hardly sold a copy even when it was heavily discounted and then remaindered. |
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Again, I am hardly qualified to write as a music critic, but there were some pieces that I did not enjoy. |
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She had never so raunchily come on to a guy in her life especially a guy she barely knew and had hardly spoken to! |
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Those first clocks hardly kept time better than the sun dials and water clocks they replaced. |
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We hardly get any young volunteers and now we're older we can't push the wheelchairs. |
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Since he was so incredibly prolific, cranking out the copy by the yard, he could hardly help committing the odd slip-up here and there. |
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The death of someone at the age of 101 is, when all is said and done, hardly a tragedy, and hardly unexpected. |
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Even at the best of times, Nicholls is hardly a model of laid-back insouciance. |
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It is hardly surprising that strictly economic ideas often, but not always, favor the interests of the haves over the have-nots. |
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Even Lincoln, despite typical undergraduate japes, is hardly a hotbed of gossip. |
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It is only when the film quiets down that some minor hiss is audible but it is hardly bothersome. |
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When you apply the acid test of value for money, hardly any make the grade. |
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She stood up weakly, testing out her strength to find that she hardly had any left. |
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He's been very well behaved with us and we've hardly heard a serious word from him. |
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These new oils are used extensively in modern teak and afrormosia furniture, but the resultant finish hardly compares with the older process. |
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Both of these might have elements of truth, but they can hardly be the whole truth. |
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Now kibitkas are hardly to be found in this area, although traditional forms of agriculture and nomadism are still in existence. |
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We can hardly take pride in a successful war against Germany motivated less by principle than realpolitik. |
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When Arian opened the door to let his dog into the room he hardly recognized the poor creature for the way its fur puffed out. |
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He listened to himself say the first word that he'd spoken in weeks, and realised that he hardly recognised his own voice. |
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The disqualification of Greece's two top sprinters hardly tarnishes the Olympic gold standard as some seem to think. |
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This is hardly surprising, since the white man's burden has long been recognized as an excuse for the most vile exploitation. |
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Just as she got to the annoying one in the middle that she could hardly reach, another pair of hands buttoned it for her. |
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The singing, too, while it could hardly be described as Broadway standard, is of a high enough calibre to keep the punters happy. |
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The spectacle of two Morris Dancers running smack into each other could hardly be bettered for a belly laugh. |
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A human will recognise that some moves hardly change the situation, and so will not bother reanalysing it. |
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So it's hardly surprising to discover that its fans are given to frequent outbursts of low-rent theorizing. |
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Seems to me that if you have 88 members out of 150 present and voting for a bill, the lack of a quorum is hardly going to influence the outcome. |
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And if the developers have done that, they're hardly going to be agreeable to contributing further to public amenities. |
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It was hardly a socialist Utopia, but enough to earn the undying hatred of reactionaries like Winston Churchill. |
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Once the impact is over and the panel has sprung back to its original shape, the damage can hardly be seen. |
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She had hardly had a chance to finish her drink when she was manhandled by burly bouncers and unceremoniously dumped outside the door. |
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As Simon's analysis of Grime has shown, such a simple binary can hardly be adequate. |
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I can see whitecaps out on the water, but the ship rides so smooth that I can hardly tell we're underway. |
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They do so because their market is hardly a market at all compared with the forest of For Sale signs which deface Britain. |
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I can hardly see the latest suggestions from the police having a beneficial effect on the levels of fear amongst the general public. |
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But fans of the game, who must be 17 years old to buy it, are hardly a collection of weirdos and social misfits. |
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While hardly approaching August's inspired revelation, I think it gives a good picture of how this situation survives. |
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He lifted her up carefully, realizing that he had picked her up so many times that it hardly even mattered to either him or her anymore. |
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Today's audiences can hardly appreciate the ahistorically high standards to which they have grown accustomed. |
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As two thirds of Finland is covered by forests, it is hardly surprising that timber is the national building material. |
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If the truth be told, many have not read it, claiming that they hardly see it as a beach read. |
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You can hardly complain about people who want to produce food uncontaminated by artificial chemicals and additives. |
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It was a competent address, cleanly delivered, but it was hardly an exercise in high octane oratory. |
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Even if people hardly knew who Harley Earl was, they associated tail fins with General Motors. |
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Serena, who has hardly said more than two words to me in the past, came over and started waffling on about her trip to France. |
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Also, pregnancy can hardly be considered a random or accidental event that might happen overnight or in training to any soldier. |
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They appear to be good faith efforts to deal with these problems, but from the result it's hardly deniable that the system failed disastrously. |
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The price of wool is still very low and it still hardly covers the cost of shearing the wool off a sheep's back. |
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He was one of the 50,000 or so people on the books of YouGov, the internet pollsters, but was hardly ever asked for his views. |
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One searches the family portraits for resemblances and finds hardly a trace. |
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You'll hardly recognise the new-look magazine next week, such is the transformation in store. |
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It does not contain any references to Jesus, though this is hardly surprising since it contains sixty-three tractates of religious law. |
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I'm a pensioner for goodness sake, I'm hardly likely to go round walloping people. |
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The economy has nosedived since he took power in April, though he has hardly begun the dolorous restructuring he promised. |
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We were whisked quickly through the spick and span Beijing Airport with hardly a question asked. |
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It need hardly be said that the residents of the northwest were far from impressed when the news of the scheme leaked out. |
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The use of the camera obscura for painting is hardly a matter of short cuts or technical ease. |
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Since the entire palace was made of alabaster, it hardly needed pillars to hold it up. |
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These are kick-ass movies, but hardly what you would call great filmmaking. |
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But while it effectively scoops the official account, due in January from National Geographic Adventure Press, it's hardly great. |
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The interests of ordinary people, however, are hardly served by smashing the windshields and shop windows of downtown Montreal. |
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I can hardly believe I slept so well, no dreams, nightmares or visions to contemplate this morning. |
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Like a determined sleuth, I followed the sound, hardly paying attention to the ground where I walked. |
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When I saw her in my outpatient clinic she could hardly walk and was brought in a wheelchair. |
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Indications are the weapons inspectors will be accepted but hardly welcomed when they arrive Monday in Baghdad. |
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As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children. |
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A wheatear with white eyebrow and orange bib perched nearby, robin shaped, hardly larger, soon to fly to Africa. |
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If you have a good printer or photo studio, you will hardly be able to tell them from work by a conventional compact. |
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Gibbs may hardly recognize the sport and the team he left more than a decade ago. |
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Given Cox's past, it is hardly surprising he acquired such coping mechanisms. |
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I'm hardly ever sick, I get along with pretty much everyone who isn't a total jagoff, I don't mind working late, and I'm ridiculously loyal. |
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The traffic warden was hardly ever here but if he's not here at all it will be ridiculous. |
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One could hardly ask for a better example of the legal realism he would so soon consider to be a pernicious and dangerous idea. |
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We've found animals wandering around the paddock, just a bag of bones, totally covered in scabs, hardly a hair on their body. |
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With only two victories away from St. James' Park all season they have hardly covered themselves in glory on their travels. |
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Rogue government and rebel militias who prowl rural areas are hardly accountable to higher authorities. |
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Now hardly anybody works on Saturday mornings and cars and buses are freely available to make the short journey to Ibrox or Parkhead. |
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Her feet hardly touched the stairs as she gingerly crept up the staircase before coming to a pause on the landing. |
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John's logic here is hardly unassailable, and the lass promptly puts him in his place by taking up with a married middle-aged bank manager. |
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It is hardly possible for me to accept that the term “loyalty” can applicably describe these actions, due to the divergent views. |
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On a theoretical point of view, the understanding of enzyme reactions is hardly reducible to elementary bimolecular reactions. |
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But her eyes had hardly adapted to the darkness when a new shock made her jump. |
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Football is something he understands, but counselling bad boys is hardly in his remit. |
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Subjecting him to a cold, unsentimental, statistical evaluation hardly does justice to the qualities he possessed. |
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The other kind of holiday I like is going 10 miles from where you live, so that you have hardly any travelling time. |
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I hardly know what to say, given this new and unfamiliar policy of keeping a civil tongue in my head. |
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Selling off an easily defined and valued book of business is hardly rocket science. |
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There may hardly be any takers for a serious study of the language and literature. |
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That their way is not right or proper or any way within the boundaries of normal behaviour hardly matters. |
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The fact that as many, if not more, offenders spring from privileged backgrounds is hardly recognized. |
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All but one point from their entire tally came from play, a remarkable statistic and one that will hardly be bettered for some time. |
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Our house was hardly an impregnable fortress at the best of times, and it was easy enough to get in if you'd forgotten your keys. |
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He could hardly make a living with his print designs and the story goes that he had to repair and sell straw mats to survive. |
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Like for a woodcut, hardly more than 2000 or 3000 impressions could be obtained from one plate. |
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It's hardly a grotto at all, merely a kink in the shadowy, soot-darkened stone passageway. |
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And if the shaft is straight the light on the wall will hardly move as the pedal axle is rotated. |
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And though he tried not to make a tragedy out of being wifeless, sometimes his spirits hardly soared at all when he saw the great mountain. |
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We could hardly believe we had so witlessly fallen into the hands of such scoundrels. |
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Yet, exegetes can hardly ignore the unbroken consensus in the biblical witness, where the words are so clearly supported by the cross itself. |
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The hectic design would hardly have conformed with Philip's conservative taste. |
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Since I did not seek the inheritance and have hardly joined the jet set as a consequence of it, I refuse to either feel guilty or apologize. |
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I've collected a bunch of sea shells to give to my favorite nephews and I can hardly wait to give it to them. |
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Uncle Sam's nephews were hardly kissing cousins, and the contrast with the happy family who were the European side was more than marked. |
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One can hardly feel the intensity of the agony that he is supposed to have endured in his final hours on earth. |
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She spent most of her time under the settee, pressed up as tight into the corner as she could, and hardly touched her food. |
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Shares of the major housebuilders have hardly moved at all since the report came out. |
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Any conscious thought process that may be required on the range to shoot well will hardly exist when your meter is pegged. |
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But it was too late to deliver an apology and I understand a sheepish Paul has hardly been able to sleep since. |
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He's the most expensive goalkeeper in the world and hardly put a foot wrong. |
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For three years now the Queen's eldest son has hardly put a foot wrong in public life. |
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A surprise selection at right back but he hardly put a foot wrong, either defensively or in possession. |
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Unsettling as our own tabloids may be, the British psyche and its problems hardly matter to the wider world. |
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He was not at all inconvenienced by the furious pace and hardly put a foot wrong over the Prestbury Park fences. |
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It's hardly surprising that Federal Reserve policymakers now keep a weather eye on the stock market. |
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But the film, shot largely on digital video, allowing it to use mostly natural light in a smoky, hazy look, hardly puts a foot wrong. |
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They hardly put a foot wrong and contributed 16 points, converting two of the three tries and putting over four penalties. |
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But the boar had hardly mounted the sow when the neighbour ran into the pen and knocked the boar off the sow with his cap. |
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We tried to get a look, but there were so many people gathered around such a small telly that we hardly saw a thing. |
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Many teams, especially teams with inexperienced quarterbacks, hardly ever change plays, or they keep audibles to a minimum. |
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The curriculum was geared to nonsense subjects while PE and sport were hardly recognised. |
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It hardly seems to matter that the critics have universally savaged this show. |
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With the exercise saber the touch with the point is hardly perceptible and would not weaken the instructor's cut. |
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The murkiness and chaos that attend armed conflict mean military actions are hardly immune to mistake. |
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Instead it reminds us that men such as Dabney were hardly rustic provincials. |
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He could hardly believe his luck, and used his Northern grit and determination to become a local and national hero. |
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My heart was knocking against my ribs so hard I could hardly breathe, much less speak. |
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He was 67, so fat that he could hardly walk, gluttonous, in ill health and within eight months of death. |
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These are hardly generous limits and could discourage low-income savers from bothering to save at all. |
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As the actress points out, a baby bump could hardly be hidden behind a string of flapper beads. |
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To have occasional draconian enforcement might provide sufficient repellence, but is hardly the way to build justice. |
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However crass and tawdry this influence-peddling may be, it hardly comes as a shock. |
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The penalty is hardly much of a deterrent and the few who are prosecuted generally continue to practise elsewhere. |
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You can hardly name a language, not to mention a country whose writers are exempted from this trend. |
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Both goals were stamped with class but it was tough on City, who hardly warranted being behind by one, never mind two. |
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But then, one hardly expects a bunch of inbred, bone-headed knuckle-draggers like them to grapple with significant theological issues. |
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Social welfare, designed to fill the gap where the family can no longer provide, hardly exists. |
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Meanwhile, if your taste is more house music with DJ and hardly any lyrical content in the songs, then pick Seb Fontaine's album. |
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Which is a safe choice, but hardly the point of a festival about elbowing the creative boundaries a little. |
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But his autobiography does not mention the tax shelter advantages of his museum and foundation, which were hardly negligible. |
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Motivation hardly seems necessary for a World Cup final but for them there is an added incentive. |
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However she was hardly a naive character falling for the guile of worldly men. |
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His attitude had taken a turn for the worse when he had been possessed by evil spirits, but he was hardly a boy scout beforehand. |
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The worship of money and bling is hardly restricted to rappers and athletes. |
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The transition from the dominant to the tonic, while hardly original to our ears, is still effective, and one of the movement's strong points. |
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It is, of course, as teachable a subject as any other practical department of music, and it could hardly be better taught than by Stanford. |
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Both appear to have been financially respectable, but hardly wealthy, paying between 50 sous and three livres per year in tailles. |
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Sitting at a window table beside the raised ring road we were hardly aware how much traffic was about. |
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Making hardly a sound, she padded across the room and then stopped suddenly and frowned down at her feet. |
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This was accepted with hardly a peep of protest from both the British and the American public. |
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It's New Year's Day and I'm in a town I know well from many, many visits in the past but today I hardly recognise it. |
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He found it amusing to see people rush throughout their daily lives and hardly stop to appreciate the day, weather rain or shine. |
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O'Neal had been fouled hard, but that hardly mattered after he was tossed and Portland center Arvydas Sabonis went on a tear to seal the victory. |
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Even the most erudite indie lyricists are hardly Byronic in their abilities. |
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No honestly love, I just wanted a picture of their costumes, I'd hardly even noticed her legs, still, a small wahey! |
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I could not afford to spend a lot of resources, or hardly anything, on an allegation of the sort of thing that you have just been talking about. |
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In a movement so swift that I hardly registered it until it was over, Andrei raised my hand to his lips and lightly kissed the back of it. |
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He sold things such as paper towels and cleaning materials to companies but it hardly got his creative juices flowing. |
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The Indian mask that bamboozled the big cats would hardly have conned any human. |
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Remediation is a trademark characteristic of weblogs but it is hardly a new idea. |
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I had a go at growing lablab as a green manure crop for my bananas, but they basically hardly grow here at all due to our lack of summer heat. |
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Actually, sacking an eminent laboratory was hardly a recommended extracurricular activity for one as reserved and cultured as Noriko. |
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In the end, Phelps walked off with six golds and two bronzes, hardly a failure. |
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The dark chocolate marquise with two chocolate sauces had hardly arrived at the table when it disappeared, testimony to its excellent flavour. |
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With her best years behind her, she can hardly reasonably expect to be kept in the manner to which she has become accustomed. |
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I hardly listen to radio in the morning, except to quickly digest the news, much of which is regurgitated from the previous night anyway. |
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He got lots of laughs when he recalled a story of how he could hardly talk English after linking up with him. |
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His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation. |
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Nothing like an unbiased free press to stir up intelligent debate, although coming from the UK, with its tabloid trash, I'm hardly one to talk really. |
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Such intemperate exchanges will hardly count as edifying but they may, alas, be unavoidable. |
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This is hardly due to his awakening love for the camera and the mike. |
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Rather, I'll mention the fact that the movie has a certain amateurish charm to it that's hard to deny, but it hardly bears more than one or two views. |
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On my way back I hardly recognized the cities or even the small villages. |
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You hardly ever see jackalopes in the wild anymore, but they can still be found in a few old taverns, usually on a wall with other stuffed critters. |
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With its serried ranks of beach brollies and ribbons of restaurants and hotels lining the seafront, it hardly seems the most promising venue for a music festival. |
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Every time he comes back to our London flat he hardly recognises the place, because I've got bored and moved all the furniture and changed the place. |
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Today, however, stamp collecting is hardly considered cool and is more likely to be indulged in by the affluent serious collector than the average ten-year-old. |
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In Beijing the sounding of car horns is the exception, rather than the rule while Shanghainese seem to hardly ever take their hand off the klaxon button. |
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Ruth could hardly face returning to America and the failure that would have signified. |
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They could hardly get Members to make a House before 10 o'clock. |
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Lona was loading her assault rifle next door with hardly a thought, mindlessly feeding rounds into two spare magazines, plus a third to be carried in the gun. |
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The action starts at 2 pm, and as a political tragic, I can hardly wait! |
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Houston, where I have been working as a consultant, hardly qualifies as one of the most physically attractive or temperate cities. |
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It hardly stirs the blood into a frenzy of adrenalin and expectation. |
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Whatever the truth, Miller hardly seems to have shrugged it off when the partner married a paralegal who worked in their office. |
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I wrote back with my attempt at consoling words, but the truth is that I am worried and can hardly console myself. |
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What's more, I'm scarcely an authority on grammar, and I can hardly type. |
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It is hardly unexpected that the net assets of the company are less than half of the amount of the called-up share capital which requires the calling of a special meeting. |
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Having shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, quality seeds, and so on made their life a good bit easier than it would have been otherwise, but it was hardly comfortable. |
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The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him. |
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Investors' jumpiness about valuation hardly comes as a surprise. |
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He sped home and quickly, hardly able to see the road in his fury. |
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She turned on her radar detector and slid up to a hundred and five, riding easily, her huge engine hardly laboring as she raced through the night. |
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This hardly seems an authentic and fully expressive mode of Being. |
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He didn't look up to her, hardly even registered her presence. |
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And if players are unwilling to take responsibility for naming names then they can hardly complain about those who attempt to administer the laws. |
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It was never conceived as a legal doctrine that could be argued or adjudicated by any court, so it's hardly surprising that terra nullius was such an obscure concept. |
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Plus I hardly burned enough calories to eat something tonight. |
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This was a daring and optimistic bet on what in the context was a largely new form of governance, coming to life and being tested under conditions that were hardly propitious. |
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In spite of the landslide victory, the LDP was hardly in a celebratory mood. |
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Some people attended day centres but often they hardly knew anyone and a small intimate group of 12 at a tea party allowed them to make friends and talk more easily. |
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Surprise and disbelief was writ on the faces of many of the members, as they could hardly believe that they had made so much money within a month. |
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He is hardly alone in using a locution that should nevertheless be retired, a charitable critic might have explained. |
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At the secondary level there was hardly any call for history teaching. |
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Neither is ready or willing to be put out to grass and they are hardly candidates for the sporting knacker's yard, a fact that Paterson readily concedes himself. |
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He can hardly fault Bob Schieffer for devoting most of the interview to his divisive words. |
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The huge rotors made hardly a whisper as they coasted, and the engine whine was so muted that the sergeant doubted anyone outside the compound could even hear it. |
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People have remarked that they have hardly ever heard him cry, and I feel sure that babywearing has had something to do with his calm contentment. |
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Given the way some of these situations have played out, causality hardly seems important. |
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I hardly even know what to say about the petition to deport Piers Morgan, now at over 80,000 signatures. |
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The game has a long history in media and popular culture, and its depictions have hardly all been Sapphic. |
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I would've said that great minds think alike, but Connor was hardly great. |
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Everyone liked the robots, some of which looked hardly human, but which nevertheless moved around in response to signals from handheld radio-controlled devices. |
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While hardly as obscure a job title as key grip or best boy, it's safe to say that most people wouldn't know exactly what being a director of photography involves. |
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He gestures to eddying whirlpools and rapids shooting through jagged rocks on both sides of the river, which is so narrow two ships could hardly pass each other. |
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It is hardly surprising that others are now demanding a slice of the pie. |
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He hardly spares any codified religion from his angry denunciations, including Orthodoxy. |
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She could hardly hear him through the shake of the earpiece in her hands. |
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Dextran, a glucan, hardly showed an interaction with the lipid monolayer, indicating that it is not an intrinsic property of polysaccharides in general. |
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Of course, Uber in the United States hardly has a reputation for being much better than in Delhi. |
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No, the tools used are just old fashioned, and the images produced are drawings, hardly a new invention. |
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Yet Agency communications specialists are hardly exploring strange new worlds or boldly going where no man has gone before. |
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The security guard wears a black suit and black V-neck that hardly contain his bulging muscles. |
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One can hardly pay literature a greater compliment than to deem it dangerous, be it said even in passing. |
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So now to the big day, needless to say there were hardly any jitterbugs. |
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The steering wheel was in the rear, but the airplane handled so gently during transitions from ground to sky and back that pilots hardly knew they were flying a tailwheel. |
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That hardly any believers approach aesthetic taste in this way is in no small part the reason we are flailing about today in a culture of ugliness and death. |
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He was delicate in health and of a nervous disposition, but this is hardly apparent from his work, which uses colour in a bold, unnaturalistic manner echoing the Fauves. |
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Jay-Jay's been sensational, Laville's hardly put a foot wrong. |
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I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life. |
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And for a set and three quarters, Davenport hardly put a foot wrong. |
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MacLean is an adept physical comic and a skilled mime, which adds a bit of flare here, but this gloss hardly excuses the standard manner in which the play unfolds. |
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Although hardly an extreme sport, kite-flying can have its moments. |
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But speaking out against partisan excesses is hardly a formula for popularity, and the blowback can get personal. |
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In foreign policy, Romney can look like Palin in a business suit with a cheat sheet of buzzwords, but hardly any substance at all. |
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But I hardly mounted my high horse and made some kind of argument that this incident disqualified him from the presidency. |
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A society that does not shudder in shame to hear cases of sati, female infanticide and foeticide, and bride burning for dowry can hardly be expected to react to cases of rape. |
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We hardly touched our wine and it was all I could to keep my eyes open. |
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If we were told that there was a watch without a mainspring, we would hardly be reassured by the further information that it had, however, an infinite train of gear-wheels. |
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Nannies, or daycare employees, are hardly ever given the benefit of the doubt. |
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And even with the tsunami of fame crashing down, it only hardly fazes them. |
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You could hardly find a vestige of the splendid railroad depots, warehouses, etc. |
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Griffith is hardly alone amongst the lovelorn, impulsive, and unfortunately tattooed. |
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Having completed the painting and got hardly any orange paint in my hair, I took a long hard look and realised that the kitchen tiles looked manky. |
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But for a one-volume guide to a man who did more in a single lifetime than most could manage in 10, this authoritative and readable book could hardly be bettered. |
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Since the light aircraft from Christchurch to Napier can hardly lift nearly three tonnes of baggage, the luggage has to come via road after taking a lengthy detour. |
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Plus, Kate and William could hardly have picked a worse time for their luxury vacation to a resort in Noonu atoll. |
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