1.   But the Research Board is hardly likely to get involved in a policing activity.

2.   It could have been an accident, but that was hardly likely.

3.   It is hardly likely that a vicious thug will wait politely while we ring the police.

4.   Such an accusation is hardly likely to have been invented by his enemies if he had not performed miracles.

5.   If she had come all the way from London, the woman was hardly likely to turn her away.

6.   Being pestered by the press was hardly likely to put Veronica in the mood for unexpected visitors.

7.   It was hardly likely to be business at this hour.

8.   But if he was playing some bizarre game he was hardly likely to admit it.

9.   It was hardly likely that any of the servants would have listened.

10.   And a fifty pound fee for the privilege of taking photographs of him was hardly likely to win him friends among the assembled media.