Example sentences of "not of much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Automatic redox control units are expensive , and not of much use to the average hobbyist . |
| 2 | It follows from what has just been said that the identity of the respondent is not of much importance in defining the scope of judicial review . |
| 3 | Public law remedies are not of much use to the citizen who has suffered actual injury ( whether physical or economic ) as opposed to one who has an intangible grievance . |
| 4 | Sloan no slouch himself in the cantankerous department was not of much help . |
| 5 | Linearity appeared to fall off at the -90dB level , not of much concern , and there was a small amount of high frequency hash in the output at -78dB . |
| 6 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |
| 7 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 8 | Regional identity is a theoretical category which as such is not of much obvious importance for one 's everyday life . |
| 9 | As we have seen , in financial terms , such promotion is not of much significance . |
| 10 | The polarity of the field is opposite to that of the Earth 's field , but in view of the many known past reversals of direction of the Earth 's field this is not of much significance . |
| 11 | Compound words may be quite useful for various parts of grammatical analysis but are not of much use in phonology . |
| 12 | However , such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals . |
| 13 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |