Sentence examples for scarcely have a from inspiring English sources

Bustards scarcely have a nest at all, the eggs being laid on bare ground, sometimes beneath a bush or clump of grass for concealment.

You can scarcely have a starker example of art that lures the eye, only to punish the mind with terrible knowledge.

It could scarcely have a more up-and-at-'em start, as Norris and Parker in catsuits and hot-pink wigs belt out a militant song-and-dance number about feminazism.

We scarcely have a chance to get our bearings before they are thrown out of whack, and we see very little of Watney before he wakes up in the desert, on a nice bright Martian day, with a length of broken radar antenna sticking out of his gut.

The enormity of the political ramifications of this disclosure scarcely have a second to sink in – a theologian who spends holy days with the Archbishop, whose God-fearing lyrics are sung by millions in America's Bible Belt, coming out as a lesbian – before I begin to reflect on the implications for her personally.

Yet I'd scarcely have a chance to take the mickey out of an earnest young economics graduate in their post-university suit before they'd written a pamphlet on the application of game theory to rail tendering and were a Newsnight veteran treated with more respect than any politician.

Since most of the coseismic and/or postseismic groundwater level changes observed in our study were caused by relatively distant earthquakes (Fig. 1; Table 4), it seems natural that those static volumetric strain changes should scarcely have an effect on the earthquake-related changes (Itaba et al., 2008a, b).

In a play that scarcely has a dud role, there is a wealth of fine performances.

The black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) scarcely had a toehold in the UK in the early part of the 20th century.

Jenkins compares the Falklands with Hong Kong, which Mrs Thatcher negotiated back to China – though reluctantly; she scarcely had a choice.

Nexus: We've scarcely had a conversation or heard a speech so far where this piece of jargon hasn't popped up.